with over two hundred diabetics members associated to it. The organization has just celebrated its 8th anniversary having begun its work officially in Mauritius in 2006. The organization depends solely on CSR funding as well as donations from individual donors. They employ a total of twelve members of staff consisting of a manager‚ an administrative secretary‚ a communication officer‚ a fundraiser‚ two drivers/field supports‚ two social workers‚ one counselor and three diabetic educators. T1 Diams
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Analysis of Glycated Hemoglobin by HPLC Technology Shalini Kini Product Specialist Diabetic EpidemiologyWhere Do we Stand!?! World Scenario * IDF Diabetes Atlas 5th Edition 2012 update. http://www.idf.org/diabetesatlas/5e/Update2012 Did U Know!!??! One Adult in Ten will have diabetes by 2030!!! Year 2012 Year 2030 63.01m India 101.2m India • India Ranked Second in the world in Diabetes Prevalence‚ behind China. *IDF Diabetes Atlas- Fifth Edition http://www.idf
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Culture and Disease Paper University of Phoenix Introduction to Health and Disease HCS/245 In the following individual assignment of the cultural and disease paper I have selected to write about diabetes. I have always been interested about the disease; I have known that there are three different types or levels to this disease‚ type one type two and type three. The
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DIABETES MELLITUS * Chronic multisystem dz ‚ abnormal insulin production / impaired utilization * Disorder of glucose metabolism related to absent/ insuff insulin supply or poor utilization of inslin that’s available * 7th leading cause of death * leading cause of blindness‚ ESRD‚ lower limb amputation * contributing factor for heart dz/ stroke risk 2-4 x higher than without DM * INSULIN – hormone produced by cells in islets of Langerhans of pancreas. Normal – continously
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Task 3 nutrition: Population group | Explanation of effect of these influences on long term health. | Babies/infants0-9 months | * Breast milk is really good for babies as it provides all the energy‚ nutrients‚ antibodies and fluids that a baby needs in order to grow and develop healthy during the first six months of life. * Eating up to two portions of oily fish a week while breast feeding is good as eating fish is good for the development of your baby’s brain and eyesight. * Drinking
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Tetracycline is added and any bacteria that don’t have the recombinant DNA will be killed off This insulin can then be harvested and used by diabetics So we have looked at an example of where bacteria is used to make recombinant DNA. So‚ what other biological materials can be used? Yeast‚ a member of Kingdom Fungi‚ is a eukaryote. Yeast is used to make Hep B vaccines. A part of the Hep B virus
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Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus Global Scenario Diabetes and other chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are significant public health challenges in the 21st century. It is estimated that 3.8 million deaths were attributable to diabetes in 2007‚ equivalent to 6% of all deaths globally. India‚ which has the largest population of diabetes patients of any country‚ diabetes accounts for 9.7% of these deaths. The prevalence of diabetes is rapidly rising all over the globe at an alarming rate
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Sensory Loss Level 5 Diploma 4/1/13 Jackie Wade Identify methods for raising awareness of sensory loss: * A working description of deafblindness that has been accepted over many years‚ is that persons are regarded as deafblind if their combined sight and hearing impairment cause difficulties with communication. It can be found in all age groups including children but the greatest is in older people. * Having a sight and hearing loss sometimes called dual sensory impaired
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a deficiency of insulin which results in improper/ slow breakdown of food. This results in sugar level spikes immediately after a meal‚ which can be harmful. Hence‚ diabetics must have food stuffs which have a slow release rate so as to not cause any spikes. In order to find out the most suitable method of cooking rice for diabetic patients‚ we found out the amylose content of rice cooked by different methods and co-related it with Glycemic Index (GI). Glycemic Index is release of glucose in the
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simple sugars‚ eat frequent meals. The average blood sugar rises gradually and as it rises there is damage occurring throughout the body. Out of control blood sugar levels can lead to serious short term problems such as hypoglycemia‚ hyperglycemia‚ or diabetic ketoacidosis (an acute‚ major‚ life-threatening complication of diabetes‚ a state of absolute or relative insulin deficiency with blood sugar over 250 mg/dl). In the long run‚ uncontrolled blood sugar can also damage the vessels that supply blood
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