Public Awareness of Diabetes Lynn A. Bailey HCA/240 August 21‚ 2011 Dr. Monica Reed‚ PhD‚ MPH Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people every year‚ and in most cases‚ this is a disease that is preventable. Increasing public awareness regarding risk factors and how this debilitating disease can be controlled and prevented may reduce the number of cases diagnosed each year. Throughout the years‚ scientists have developed a variety of treatment options and medications that are
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What happens in diabetes? Lack of insulin or a resistance to insulin is known to have major metabolic effects. Food powers our bodies. When we eat food‚ most digestable carbohydrates are converted into glucose and rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. We use this glucose for energy. However these carbohydrates cannot be utilized effectively and excess glucose cannot be stored in the liver. The glucose level in the blood increases but the cells of the body will be lacking of glucose and energy.
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Le Dao Professor Lang ENGL 908 April 20‚ 2017 DIABETES Being infected with a disease called diabetes‚ my grandmother‚ the one that I love the most‚ had been paralyzed for more than 8 years and finally passed away on October 15‚ 2016. Seeing her suffering with this kind of sickness for such a long time but I couldn’t do anything to help is what I regret the most. When my grandmother was paralyzed‚ I was only 9 years old. At such a young age‚ there’s nothing I can do to help her except watching her
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Diabetes Education And The Increase In Diabetes Diabetes is becoming a worldwide epidemic. It is one of the biggest health challenges that the United Kingdom (UK) is facing today with one person being diagnosed with diabetes every 3 minutes (Diabetes UK‚ 2009). The latest data indicates that there are now 2.8 million of people with diabetes in UK and nine out of ten people diagnosed with diabetes are Type 2 diabetes (2.5 millions). According to health experts‚ UK is now facing a huge public health
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Public Awareness and Diabetes Tammy Tung HCA 240 May 9‚ 2010 Shannon White Diabetes There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 normally occurs before the age of 20 and is usually diagnosed much younger. Type 2 normally occurs after the age of 45. The reasons patients develop type 1 are not as clear. In type 1 the body does not produce enough insulin‚ in type 2 the body may either not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin the body produces. In both types the lack of
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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‚ a hereditary disease. Is diabetes a hereditary disease? For many decades‚ researchers have been looking for the answer to this question. Studies have shown that diabetes does run in the family. If you get diabetes as a child or later in life‚ you still had to have some genes that predisposed you to it. Studies have shown that even though this disease is hereditary‚ there are many causes of diabetes. There are two kinds of diabetes‚ each that is caused by different genes. Diabetes
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A Health Problem The diabetes is a disease which is characterized by the absence of insulin properly on the body. Also‚ the name diabetes has its origin in ancient Greece and Rome‚ and diabetes means “sweet”. In addition‚ this disease has been around the history of human beings for thousands of years. For example‚ there are manuscripts in Egyptian before of Christ that described to people to urinate frequently‚ and in Asia some doctors described people who suffered tiredness‚ skin boils and thirst
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Short summary of Diabetes • Description of the disease • Risk factors for the disease • Lifestyle choices you can make in your life to decrease your modifiable risk factors for this disease Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in America today. Approximately 225‚000 people die each year of diabetes complications. There are basically two types of diabetes. Type 1 is known as the childhood diabetes‚ but not necessarily limited to children. Type 1 diabetes is the more serious
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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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