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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have little access to rich foods experience few heart attacks. Similarly‚ most people in rural Africa and South and Central America have little fear of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Yet in North America‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ and the increasingly affluent countries in Europe and Asia‚ where diets are rich in fat‚ heart disease and diabetes are epidemic. The villains: low fiber and high fat‚ take their toll by damaging the body’s vital oxygen-carrying arteries and by upsetting important metabolic
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Diabetes Epidemiology Paper Tammy Stadler‚ RN NUR 408 October 27‚ 2011 Joni Reynolds‚ RN/CNS‚ MSN Diabetes Epidemiology Paper According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’s National Center for Health Statistics‚ "[By 1993] death certificates listed diabetes as the fifth leading cause of death for Blacks aged 45 to 64‚ and the third leading cause of death for those aged 65 and older in 1990” (Bailey‚ 2007‚ p. 1). These statistics show how serious the problem of diabetes has
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According to Hamric‚ “evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach that incorporates best available scientific evidence‚ clinicians’ expertise‚ and patients’ preferences and values” (Hamric 2009) and is of high “importance to best practice and to the education of healthcare professionals” (Hamric 2009). EBP helps nurses to improve their clinical practice by evaluating what they do and how they do it‚ and what are the final outcomes on their patients. Research‚ in providing healthcare
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In their articles‚ Alan Kamhi and Kenn Apel discuss evidence-based practice‚ clinical practice‚ and science. While Kamhi feels that clinical practice cannot be scientific‚ Apel believes the contrary. Though they each note several differences between scientists and clinicians‚ I believe it is possible for clinicians to be scientists. Clinicians may not conduct science in the same regimented way as full-time researchers‚ but they are equally capable of researching practices‚ testing hypotheses‚ collecting
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Xerox Focuses on HR Xerox Corporation is a $22 billion company‚ and is a world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management that manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ digital production printing presses‚ scanners‚ software solutions‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut and has 130‚000 employees in 160 countries. On September 28‚ 2009‚ Xerox announced
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but one that stands out is‚ should kids be convicted as adults if committed a serious crime. In the other words‚ serious crime includes murder‚ rape‚etc‚ or are they just kids‚ that don’t know what is right from wrong. Juveniles should be convicted as adults for violent crimes because their crimes are severe and well planned out. America’s incarceration system should convict juveniles as adult if committed a serious crime. In the article On Punishment and Teen Killers states that this teenager
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The Coast of Diabetes Audience: Group of classmates General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To provide the audience with information about Diabetes and increase their knowledge. Introduction: -- Attention-getter: -- Qualifications/credibility: I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 11 months old. For the past 5 years I was making research on how to keep diabetes under control and avoid complications. -- Audience motivation/relevance: During my presentation I will give you
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MODULE 2: RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Vandana G. Kotapally Grand Canyon University: SPE 557 04/25/2012 Abstract Causes of dyslexia or reading disabilities have been hotly debated by researchers and educators. Knowledge regarding the causes of reading disabilities is important as they define the strategies that will used to help students with dyslexia learn. Dyslexia is caused by differences in the information processing patterns of learning disability students. Language and phonological skills
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efficiency under competition Nordstrom‚ K.A.‚ Vahlne‚ J-E.‚ 1994. Is the globe shrinking? Psychic distance and the establishment of ¨ Steinherr‚ A.‚ Huveneers‚ C.H.‚ 1994. On the performance of differently regulated financial institutions: some empirical evidence Stiglitz‚ J.E.‚ Weiss‚ A.‚ 1981. Credit rationing with imperfect information. Amer. Econom. Rev. 71‚ 393 – 410. Sutton‚ J.‚ 1997. Gibrat’s legacy. J. Econom. Literature 35‚ 40 – 59. Tschoegl‚ A.E.‚ 1982. Foreign direct investment in banking in Japan
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