ABOUT DIABETES MELLITUS Diabetes mellitus (or diabetes) is a chronic‚ lifelong condition that affects your body’s ability to use the energy found in food. There are three major types of diabetes: types 1 diabetes ‚ type 2 diabetes‚ and gestational diabetes. All types of diabetes mellitus have something in common. Normally‚ your body breaks down the sugars and carbohydrates you eat into a special sugar called glucose. Glucose fuels the cells in your body. But the cells need insulin‚ a hormone
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Diabetes runs in my family. My grandmother and grandfather‚ my dad’s parents have diabetes‚ so does my dad and a couple of my aunts and uncles. My dad always tells me to watch out for the amount of sugar that I consume‚ and the foods that I eat. I never really paid much attention to it‚ did not even know what diabetes is. As the years pass by my dad keeps telling me the same thing over and over again. Until one day he told me that maybe in the future I can be diagnosed with diabetes. Having diabetes
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HND701 Pathophysiology of Diabetes Due: 1st June 2012 Student name: Marie Sansotta-Allen Student number: 212234644 Word count: Essay – 3292‚ Citations/quotes/contents page - 700‚ References –1328 Table of Contents Page Introduction 2 Diabetes Nephropathy 3 Risk factors 4 Pathophysiology of Diabetes Nephropathy 5 Diabetes Nephropathy Management
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Diabetes Diabetes is a condition where the pancreas secretes an insufficient supply of insulin or the body does not use the insulin efficiently. Normally‚ when the pancreas produces the right amount of insulin to accommodate the quantity of sugar. However‚ when the person has diabetes‚ either the pancreas produces little or no insulin or the cells do not respond normally to the insulin. Sugar accumulates up in the blood‚ overflows into the urine and then passes from the body unused. Now if this
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Methods of Insulin Delivery {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} DIABETES RESEARCH PAPER Pharmacology 8 a.m. New Medications & Methods of Insulin Delivery APA 1 Kelsie Marie Hargrays St. Cloud Technical College Abstract {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} The research I did was on new medications and methods of insulin delivery. I researched a few new medications that help treat type 1 & 2 diabetes. I also researched about new methods of delivery and found many different
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Diabetes Research Paper Pathology Fall 2010 Abstract Diabetes is a disease that affects currently 23.6 million people‚ about 7.8% of the population. Diabetes comes from a high level of sugar in the blood for a long period of time. Ways to control it are by diet‚ exercise‚ medicine and insulin injections. There are four known types of diabetes: Prediabetes‚ which is a condition that raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes; Type 1‚ which generally affects primarily the younger population;
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Care As a professional nurse‚ assisting the patient with the basic knowledge of self-management of diabetes mellitus with supportive care‚ will help lessen risk associated with this illness. Helping the patient to take small steps with their lifestyle‚ will result in a understanding of the capacity of their illness. This essay will discuss a family member who was recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type II and has to take insulin. After performing the questionnaire‚ there were several identifiable
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Literature interventions Aims & outcomes The Empowerment Model assists individuals to take responsibility over lives by altering behaviour if they want (Naidoo and Wills‚ 2009). Tones model discussed the serious awareness- enhancing necessity in health education to obtain the skills‚ and self-assurance to proceed (1986). Cooperative interferences are concentrating on the attainment of facts and knowledge (Glasgow and Anderson‚ 1999). Diabetes self-management preparation progressed from the didactic
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Living with and the Challenges of Type 1 Diabetes Many of us know someone who has diabetes‚ but most of us don’t know what the disease is and the challenges that the person faces on a day to day basis. Diabetes is a disease that affects the pancreas. Your body produces too little or no insulin at all. It causes the glucose to backup in the bloodstream‚ which then causes the blood sugars to rise. (Joslin Diabetes Center) There are two types of diabetes; people often get them mixed up and confused
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James is 18 years of age and has just presented (with his parents) to his GP with a 2 week history of extreme fatigue‚ polyuria‚ polydipsia‚ and weight loss. His random BGL is 41mmol/l and his blood ketones show 3.2mmol/l. His GP has diagnosed Type 1 diabetes with DKA and has sent him to the emergency department to see an endocrinologist at your public hospital‚ St Health Skills. The endocrinologist has decided on inpatient stabilisation. James has been deemed stable enough with his DKA to avoid ICU admission
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