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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Diabetes Diabetes mellitus is a chronic hyperglycemic condition in which the body does not produce enough or no insulin at all to control blood sugar levels in the body. The prevalence of diabetes is steadily growing at a fast rate‚ and it is predicted that by the year 2030 an estimated 370 million adults will be diagnosed with diabetes‚ that is double the amount of patient diagnosed with diabetes in the year 2000 (Ozougwu‚ Obimba‚ Belonwu‚ & Unakalamba‚ 2013). Diabetes has four classifications:
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Type 2 diabetes can be described a one of the most common forms of diabetes that exists today. It need to be understood that what happens to an individual when he suffers from type 2 diabetes is that he would not be able to produce enough insulin‚ which is needed for the body in order to be able to use sugar effectively‚ or perhaps his cells would ignore the insulin that his body is producing. It would help to remember the important fact that it is sugar that provides energy for the body‚ and unless
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0916-484-5004 DEGREE: Bachelor of Science in Nursing Las Piñas College College of Nursing March 29‚ 2001 Passed the Integrated Comprehensive Licensure Exam June 10‚ 2001 Passed the Midwifery Board Exam November 10‚ 2009 WORK EXPERIENCE: Las Piñas City Medical Center Las Piñas City‚ Philippines Staff Nurse (OB GYNE‚ MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WARD) August 22‚ 2001 – December 21‚ 2004 Clinical Instructor supervising: Nursing Midwifery Caregiving students in OB GYNE and Pediatric
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get a bulge in your arteries and it blows up like a balloon)‚ heart failure‚ vision loss‚ kidney could shut down‚ and the list goes on. Explaining diabetes to a 13-year old middle school honors student: Hey‚ what’s up? The doctor wanted me to come in and talk to you for a minute. I understand that the doctor has just diagnosed you with diabetes. I want to make sure you understand what that is and what goes along with it.
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COLLEGE OF NURSING Silliman University Dumaguete City LESSON PLAN ON THE TYPES OF NURSING CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS Submitted to: Clinical Instructor Submitted by: COLLEGE OF NURSING Silliman University Dumaguete City Vision A leading Christian institution committed to total human development for the well-being of society and environment Mission Infuse into the academic learning the Christian faith anchored on the gospel
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Type 2 Diabetes for my PDH lifestyle and communicable diseases assignment. 2.Is this a lifestyle‚ genetic and communicable disease? How do you come to this conclusion? Diabetes type 2 is both a lifestyle and genetic disease. • Lifestyle- Diabetes type 2 is a Lifestyle disease because we can get it from not looking after ourselves. Many people in our society are becoming more and more obese and fat because they are not doing what’s right for them. The risk factor of getting diabetes type 2
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List and briefly describe the four types of diabetes insipidus. Neurogenic DI- is caused by a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone Nephrogenic DI- is caused by insensitivity of the kidneys to effect the antidiuretic hormone Dispogenic DI- is caused by being really thirty and drinking way too much liquid of any kind. Gestagenic DI- is only during pregnancy and it is causd by a deficiency of the antidiuretic 4. How is pituitary diabetes insipidus diagnosed? It is diagnosed with
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death rate from alcoholism‚ tuberculosis‚ and diabetes than any other racial or ethnic group. Recent studies by Indian health experts‚ "show that diabetes among Indian youth ages 15-19 has increased 54% since 1996 and 40% of Indian children are overweight" (White 1). Even though diabetes rates vary considerably among the Native American population‚ deaths caused from diabetes are 230 percent greater than the United States population as a whole. Diabetes is an increasing crisis among the Native American
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changed when she was diagnosed diabetes type 2. She was neither obsessed‚ nor decayed-teeth; the reason why she got this disease was only because of over chemotherapy. From that time‚ her lifestyle transferred to non-sugar and non-fat mode‚ including whole family eventually. Although she put all her effort to control her blood sugar‚ her vision began to blur‚ and her skin began to ulcerate. Every time when I heard this story from my father‚ I felt frightened about diabetes. As her healthy situation
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