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‚ in the modern world of technology and sedentary lifestyle‚ becomes one of the most common diseases a person can get. When blood sugar level rises high enough over an extended of time‚ this condition‚ when taken lightly‚ will lead to diabetes. If not given attention‚ this disease will eventually lead to a multitude of serious health problems. Heart failure‚ stroke‚ foot ulcers‚ eye damage‚ chronic kidney failure etc. are only a number of its serious complications when not treated with immediate
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HLTEN611B – Apply Principles of Diabetic Nursing Care Assessment 1 – Case Study James is 18 years of age and has just presented (with his parents) to his GP with a 2 week history of extreme fatigue‚ polyuria‚ polydipsia‚ and weight loss. His random BGL is 41mmol/l and his blood ketones show 3.2mmol/l. His GP has diagnosed Type 1 diabetes with DKA and has sent him to the emergency department to see an endocrinologist at your public hospital‚ St Health Skills. The endocrinologist has decided on inpatient
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body. As such‚ the endeavor to a better living is not without it’s faults. Australians struggle everyday to attain that continuum with programs and activities that better enable them to meet their goals‚ and one of those issues are Diabetes‚ for which part most are Type 2. It is a potentially preventable disease we’re the core causes of it are usually inadequate physical activity and poor dietary management. Over the years there have been programs that help aid the fight with this illness‚ and in that
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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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in understanding concepts. Once again‚ you do not have to read all or any of these – I am just trying to include additional resources that you can turn to if you need more. We will finish lecturing on post-op/wound management on 2/4 at 0930. We will begin diabetes content immediately after that. For this learning experience‚ being present is a necessity. I will not be lecturing. Please come to class prepared with: iClicker (needed for peri-op as well) Lewis text Davis Drug Guide Computer
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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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Diabetes in developing countries Deaths from diabetes‚ which has two primary forms including type1 and type2 diabetes‚ have become a significant problem in the world. Nowadays‚ diabetes is still a disease not having precise method to cure. As a result of surplus blood sugar‚ it has a negative effect on the human body and leads to several complications‚ such as vision problems‚ kidney damage‚ nerve damage and heart and circulation problems (Pollock‚ 2006). Consequently‚ the increased risk of these
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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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Diabetes Name: Institution: Diabetes An intervention generally describes a combination of strategies and set of activities that are aimed at improving the health status of an individual or an entire priority population. Interventions with multiple strategies are the bet equips to sensitizing a target population and in so doing improvement of the status of that select group. With regard to the diabetes intervention‚ the select group is the geographical setup of Hawaii and specifically the priority
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