Appendix F Type I and Type II Diabetes What are the differences between Type I and Type II diabetes? By completing this chart‚ you will create an easy-to-read reference that will help you understand how the two forms of diabetes mellitus differ. Use Ch. 13 of the text in addition to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Web site at http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp to find details about the two types of diabetes. Diabetes Mellitus Matrix |Form of Diabetes |Age
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Type 1 Diabetes- Usually diagnosed in children and young adults‚ and was previously known as juvenile diabetes. The body does not produce insulin. The body breaks down the sugars and starches you eat into a simple sugar called glucose‚ which it uses for energy. Insulin is a hormone that the body needs to get glucose from the bloodstream into the cells of the body. With the help of insulin therapy and other treatments‚ even young children can learn to manage their condition and live long‚ healthy
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Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease.Type 2 diabetes is really common.What is type 2 diabetes‚Symptoms‚and how to control it are some of the most asked questions. What is type 2 diabetes?It’s a lifelong disease that over 27 million people have.Most people over the age of 40 get it.Which means that 40 years old and higher have a greater chance of getting type 2 diabetes.Type 2 diabetes is when the body can’t make enough insulin or the body can’t use it right.Insulin is sugar the body makes.Type
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Gestational Diabetes: This type of diabetes affects women during pregnancy. During pregnancy‚ the placenta produces increased levels of other hormones. This affects how the body makes insulin during pregnancy; these hormones also increase blood glucose levels which causes gestational diabetes. Many patients of this type of diabetes can control and prevent it with proper exercise and diet. However‚ some of them would need to take medication that controls blood glucose. Type 1 Diabetes: This type of
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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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Introduction Dictionary.com describes compassion as a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune‚ accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering (2012). Bush describes compassion fatigue as a complex emotion that allows caregivers to hold and sustain themselves in emotional balance while holding patients’ despair in one hand and their hopefulness in the other (2009). Being able to identify the warning signs‚ know the physical‚ emotional and spiritual
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CC Mary is a 70-year-old female here today with her friend Barbara‚ after receiving Phytel call regarding follow up of her diabetes and hyperlipidemia. HPI The patient tells me that she is doing reasonably well‚ since I have last seen her. She has been to see several specialists‚ including Dr. Kunz and Dr. Meattey. Dr. Kunz‚ rheumatology Dr. Meattey for endocrinology. She reports that there was some discussion as to a diagnoses‚ but she was finally diagnosed with PMR and was placed on steroids
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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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. What type of medication is prescribed to diabetics? Insulin. 2. What type of medication is prescribed to diabetics? For human insulin‚ it is consists of two polypeptide chains in which the chain A has 21 amino acids and chain B has 30 amino acids (Beta Cell Biology Consortium‚ 2014). Other than that‚ the two polypeptide chains are connected by two inter-chain disulfide bridges (Beta Cell Biology Consortium‚ 2014). For insulin from other animals‚ the structure is almost the same as human insulin
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the hospital‚ you’ll be okay”. One of the nurses then explained to me that I have been diagnosed with type I diabetes. I could not have imagined that my life would make a complete turn at such a young age.
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