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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1 TYPE 2 DIABETES Andrea Jimenez Sullivan University Pathophysiology with Pharmacology I-07 November 15‚ 2013 Type 2 Diabetes 2 Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder resulting from the body ’s inability to properly use insulin. This is called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance means the body does not respond when insulin is present. This is the most
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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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The Silent Killer: Diabetes Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death by disease. It is a chronic disease that has no cure. Therefore it comes to no surprise that this disease has acquired countless number of attentions. Unfortunately‚ 5.4 million people in the United State are unaware that they have this disease. Until they do‚ they have already developed life-threatening complications. This may include blindness‚ kidney diseases‚ nerves diseases‚ heart diseases‚ strokes‚ and amputations
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with Gestational Diabetes Gestational diabetes is a condition characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels that is first recognized during pregnancy. The condition occurs in approximately 4% of all pregnancies. What Causes Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy Almost all women have some degree of impaired glucose intolerance as a result of hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy. That means that their blood sugar may be higher than normal‚ but not high enough to have diabetes. During the later
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Diabetes Diabetes is a condition where the pancreas secretes an insufficient supply of insulin or the body does not use the insulin efficiently. Normally‚ when the pancreas produces the right amount of insulin to accommodate the quantity of sugar. However‚ when the person has diabetes‚ either the pancreas produces little or no insulin or the cells do not respond normally to the insulin. Sugar accumulates up in the blood‚ overflows into the urine and then passes from the body unused. Now if this
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was for developing diabetes. With diabetes‚ there are two different types‚ Type 1 and Type 2. The health risk assessment I took was for Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is where the level of sugar or glucose in the blood is abnormally high. Also the level of insulin can be low‚ normal‚ or high. The problem with this is that the body does not respond properly to the insulin; the body becomes partially resistant to the effects of insulin. Insulin resistance develops in type 2 diabetes long before the blood
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