Diabetes‚ what is it? Diabetes is defined by Wikipedia “as a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar‚ either because the body does not produce enough insulin‚ or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.” Diabetes is a chronic debilitating disease that affects over 8 percent of the American population‚ however‚ with diet‚ exercise and medication‚ it is controllable and patients can live a long meaningful life with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes
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Life With Diabetes; A Complete Overview There are known various diseases worldwide that are on an accelerated increase; such as a disease by the name Diabetes mellitus‚ or widely acknowledged as Diabetes. Diabetes is on a rise and is altering individuals all around the world. About 350 million people worldwide are known of having diabetes (Dennis); nearly 29.1 million come from the United States (Mayers). With multitudinous people possessing this disease‚ researchers have generated research throughout
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Student- Vu Le SOAPE NOTE (Diabetes Case 2) Subjective: 1. Chief Complaint: CT is a 77 year old African American woman who comes into the clinic for her diabetes. 2. History of Present Illness: CT is coming to clinic today to seek help in controlling her diabetes. Objective: 1. Past Medical History: • Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 for the past 40 years • Hypertension for the past 45 years • Chronic Kidney Disease for the past ten years with neuropathy • Myocardial Infarction in the year 2010 2. Family
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if Turkish people enjoy the benefits of the Disease Management Program‚ DMP. Specifically‚ the article talks about people that have the diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2)‚ (Makowski‚ Anna Christin and Christopher Kofahl 2014). To have a clear idea and comparison‚ the data have been compared to another study that concentrated on studying the non-immigrant with diabetes part of the DMP (Makowski‚ Anna Christin and Christopher Kofahl 2014). In Germany they introduced the DMP to try improve the health care
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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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Diabetes‚ in the modern world of technology and sedentary lifestyle‚ becomes one of the most common diseases a person can get. When blood sugar level rises high enough over an extended of time‚ this condition‚ when taken lightly‚ will lead to diabetes. If not given attention‚ this disease will eventually lead to a multitude of serious health problems. Heart failure‚ stroke‚ foot ulcers‚ eye damage‚ chronic kidney failure etc. are only a number of its serious complications when not treated with immediate
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Diabetes Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease. There are two types of diabetes‚ type 1‚ and type 2. This is the fastest growing disease in America‚ with 50% of the adults being diagnosed with it. This disease is number six in the leading cause of death. There are about 225‚000 people that die from related complications of diabetes. Diabetes is caused from the body producing‚ too much glucose in the blood. In a healthy person glucose enters the blood stream from the organs. The pancreas
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with Gestational Diabetes Gestational diabetes is a condition characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels that is first recognized during pregnancy. The condition occurs in approximately 4% of all pregnancies. What Causes Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy Almost all women have some degree of impaired glucose intolerance as a result of hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy. That means that their blood sugar may be higher than normal‚ but not high enough to have diabetes. During the later
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Dan Vanderheiden‚ Discussion Article Summary Learning to live with diabetes – integrating an illness or objectifying a disease The article was focused on the learning process of patients who had been diagnosed with diabetes and how they worked to modify their lifestyle to cope with their illness. They had to learn how manage their diets‚ measure their blood sugar and administer insulin injections (some of them did anyway). Some patients placed a heavy reliance on measuring their sugar with a
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hospital I realize how many patients have diabetes. As a nurse‚ I believe it is very important to know how to educate the diabetic patients as to the guidelines they should follow at home on the foods they should be eating and avoiding. In addition I believe it is important for the nurse to know what foods the patient should and should not be eating in the hospital. This teaching plan is going to focus on a general guideline of a diet for a patient with diabetes. As of 2011 25.8 million children and
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