Introduction Type II Diabetes is a rapidly growing disease in our country. Unfortunately‚ many of us know at least one person who battles through this metabolic disease. I chose the article titled The sugar disease-understanding type 2 diabetes mellitus written by Georgina Casey to review and learn from. This article was found in the Continuing Professional Development +Nurses Journal published in March 2011. My grandmother has battled with this disease for many years and it has slowly progressed
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Obesity prevention intervention program: Few intervention studies exist for preventing obesity in children and most were conducted in western countries‚ school based and the interventions were based on a health-education or social-cognitive model framework. Sharjah Education council (SEC) focused on obesity at government schools. Combating of obesity program is started since 2012 which called (Generations without obesity) and great effort is running to decrease the obesity rate at schools. Generations
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tuberculosis‚ and diabetes than any other racial or ethnic group. Recent studies by Indian health experts show that diabetes among Indian youth ages 15-19 has increased 54% since 1996 and 40% of Indian children are overweight. Even though diabetes rates vary considerably among the Native American population‚ deaths caused from diabetes are 230 percent greater than the United States population as a whole. Diabetes is an increasing crisis among the Native American population. Diabetes is a disease
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This is the everyday life of people with diabetes. When you have diabetes you have to take a blood glucose monitor and some form of fast acting sugar like juice or candy wherever you go‚ this means you have to carry a bag big enough to fit this and everything else you carry or a Fanny pack. This may not seem
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Chapter 2 Case Study Summary 1: 21-year old woman that has had type 1 diabetes for the past 8 years‚ was brought to the hospital in a coma. She was prescribed to take 92 units of insulin a day to maintain her sugar levels within normal limits and prevent excess sugar in her urine. Upon admission she was hypontensive‚ tachycardic and hyperventilating. Her labs show she is acidonic‚ arterial blood carbon dioxide levels were low‚ blood oxygen tension is normal‚ bicarbonate levels are
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Case Study on Type2 Diabetes Mellitus This paper will look at the physiology of normal blood glucose. The pathophysiology of Diabetes mellitus type 2 with a description of some of the common presenting symptoms of polyuria‚ polydipsia and polyphagia. Explore the importance of incorporating the 5 components of managing the disease and discuss why the Indigenous population are more than 3.4 times more likely to be affected than non-indigenous Australians (AIHW 2006‚ Brown & Edwards 2008). The
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Type 2 Diabetes in children and adolescents is an emerging epidemic within the last 20 years. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children and adolescents; about 151‚000 people below the age of 20 years have diabetes (CDC‚ 2009). There has been an increase in the amount of younger people‚ including teenagers that have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. According to the CDC website‚ type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents‚ although still rare‚ is being diagnosed
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pressure‚ body mass index and waist circumference. Hemoglobin A1C lab values exposes the numbers relating to diabetes. Lab values of Hba1c are 5.6 and below are normal lab values‚ 5.7-6.4 are prediabetes‚ 6.5 or greater means the individual has diabetes. 13Diabetes mellitus affects an estimated 29.1 million people in the United States and is the 7th leading cause of death.14Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem. 14Prediabetes is defined as impaired glucose tolerance or impaired
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Health 11-21-13 Diabetes Diabetes is a disease in which the body isn’t able to properly use the insulin which causes high sugar (glucose) levels. Insulin is a hormone needed to change the sugar in your body to energy for you throughout the day (Type). This would explain why one of the many signs of diabetes is tiredness‚ because if your body is unable to produce insulin then you wont have the energy to do much of anything. Diabetes is a disease that many people can acquire in their life or
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Diabetes‚ once not a highly talked about disease‚ now has become a global epidemic. With the poor eating habits in the United States‚ more of the general population is being diagnosed with this disease daily. According to the American Diabetes Association‚ there are nearly 30 million people living with diabetes and another 86 million with pre-diabetes in the United States alone. Causes of diabetes may be due to genetics‚ obesity‚ physical inactivity‚ and hormonal diseases‚ along with the foods you
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