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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Type Ii Diabetes
1,389 wordsNon Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus is the name given to a disturbed chemical balance in the body, which can affect a number of different organs. The word diabetes comes from a Greek expression meaning, siphon. (Nova) It refers to the increased urination and thirst that occurs in newly diagnosed cases. These symptoms are due to the high sugar (glucose) content in the urine. The sugar drags water out with it, the body gets dry and you feel thirsty. All this follows an excessive build-up of gl...
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Control Of Blood Glucose Levels
1,253 wordsControl of Blood Glucose Levels Homeostasis is the mechanism for keeping your internal conditions constant. Homeostatic control of blood glucose can be made using insulin. It decreases blood sugar concentration making it about 80 - 120 mg of glucose per 100 ml of blood during fasting Insulin is the only hormone that decreases blood sugar level. The presence of insulin causes a cells membrane to be more permeable to glucose; this causes blood sugar level to drop in the blood. Homeostatic control ...
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People With Diabetes Congenital Heart
375 wordsCongenital Heart Defects and Drugs Congenital heart defects are mainly caused by one of three things. The first is a block of blood flow in the heart or vessels. The second is caused by blood flowing through the heart where its pattern is abnormal. Rare effects can happen such as when only one functional ventricle is present or when together the pulmonary artery (and aorta arise from the same ventricle meaning double outlet-ventricles. Another rare effect happens when either side of the heart is...
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People With Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus
706 wordsDiabetes Some people have a disease that requires them to take daily injections of insulin. This disease is called diabetes, and cannot be cured. But, what if a non functioning pancreatic islet cells could be made to produce insulin once again. That would cure diabetes. The possibility has set the diabetes world excited over the past few months ever since researchers at McGill University in Canada and the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) successfully regenerated islet cells in diabetic ham...
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Blood Glucose Levels Type Ii Diabetes
1,165 wordsDiabetes: Types 1 and 2 By: Sharif Elshinnawi It is our fourth leading cause of death by disease and the leading cause of new cases of kidney disease, blindness, amputation, and impotence. It is diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body does not make, or does not properly use insulin. Insulin is the hormone that helps your body use the energy from sugar, starches and other foods. Glucose, a form of sugar produced when the body digests carbohydrates, is the body s major fuel for t...
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Blood Sugar Level Type I Diabetes
1,955 wordsDiabetes is a Diabetes Diabetes Diabetes is a circumstance in which a break down occurs in the metabolism of the food into power for the human body. It is a serious disorder that effects millions and millions of people each year. The chief feature of diabetes is the lack of insulin. Diabetes is one of the oldest diseases known to this date. Since the Ancient days, scientist have made many medical discovers that helps treat diabetes. (Dolger and Seeman 14). There are two forms of diabetes, Type 1...
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People With Diabetes Type 1 Diabetes
773 wordsEach year 30, 000 Americans are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and over 13, 000 or whom are children. That s 35 children every day. 16 million Americans have diabetes and of these, 5. 4 are undiagnosed. Diabetes kills one American every three minutes. It afflicts 120 million people worldwide and a new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 40 seconds. This number is estimated to skyrocket to 300 million by the year 2025. Diabetes does not discriminate and it can strike anyone at any age and all et...
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