Tad Sherman Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Essentially the same disease‚ Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes share many different attributes as to when and how a person is diagnosed and methods of treating the disease. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes have some similarities in the way they are treated and diagnosed as well as some differences in treatment and diagnosis. Type 1 diabetes is the less common of the two and is generally diagnosed in younger and type 2 diabetes is diagnosed at any age and has different
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Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Type 2 An endocrine disorder is a medical condition that causes a hormonal imbalance. When an endocrine gland functions abnormally‚ producing either too much of a specific hormone (hyperfunction) or too little (hypofunction)‚ the hormonal imbalance can cause various complications in the body. The major glands of the endocrine system are the pituitary‚ thyroid‚ parathyroid‚ adrenal‚ and pancreas. One of the common endocrine disorders is diabetes. According to
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Diabetes and Drug Treatments Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic ailment branded by an abnormally elevated blood glucose levels triggered by a shortfall of insulin fabrication or cellular resistance to the insulin activity or both (Arcangelo & Peterson‚ 2013). According to Kerner and Brückel (2014); Center for Disease Control and Prevention {CDC}‚ (2014)‚ approximately greater than 29.1 million people in the United States are breathing with diabetes. Diabetes is a non-discerning ailment that impact
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About type 2 diabetes Around 2.6 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes. About nine in 10 of these people have type 2 diabetes. It usually affects people over the age of 40‚ but can develop at any age. People of African-Caribbean or South Asian origin are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. It usually affects them earlier in life‚ from about the age of 25. Type 2 diabetes is becoming more common‚ particularly in children. Type 2 diabetes develops when your body can’t produce
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Type One and Type Two Diabetes Type one diabetes is a life threatening disease with no cure known‚ but only treatment to help maintain a normal life. The exact origin of type one diabetes is not known and no known way to prevent the disease from occurring. Many signs are known to help catch the diabetes early on before it becomes life threatening. Some common symptoms are constant hunger‚ weight loss‚ increased thirst‚ and urinating frequently. Type two diabetes is also a life threatening disease
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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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person with type 2 diabetes things are different. Beta cells in a person who is just developing diabetes discharge to much insulin causing them to grow. Soon after this happens the body shuts down the beta cells causing the body to become insulin resistant. Diabetes is a problem with your body that causes blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal. This also can be called hyperglycemia. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. If you have type 2 diabetes your body does
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Type 2 Diabetes in children and adolescents is an emerging epidemic within the last 20 years. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children and adolescents; about 151‚000 people below the age of 20 years have diabetes (CDC‚ 2009). There has been an increase in the amount of younger people‚ including teenagers that have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. According to the CDC website‚ type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents‚ although still rare‚ is being diagnosed
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Type 2 diabetes is common within most people. Eating healthy and exercising are important in reducing the chance of getting diabetes. Even if people eat healthy and exercise daily‚ they might still get type 2 diabetes because it runs within the family. The purpose of this paper is to discuss why type 2 diabetes occurs within people‚ which foods we have to increase or limit‚ and how the healthcare provider will educate the patients that have that condition. People that have diabetes‚ tend
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