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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Gestational Diabetes
1,238 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications and premature death, but persons with diabetes can take measures to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences. 15. 7 million people -- 5. 9 % of the population -- have diabetes. But only 10. 3 million people are diagnosed so that leaves 5. 4 million people not diagnosed. Studies have foun...
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Type Ii Diabetes Type I Diabetes
1,419 wordsThere are two types of diabetes: diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus. Diabetes insipidus is a rare metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of the pituitary hormone, which is usually the result of damage to the pituitary gland. Diabetes insipidus is characterized by enormous amounts of urine that are produced by the body regardless of how much liquid is consumed. Diabetes mellitus results from the production of insufficient amounts of insulin by the pancreas. Without insulin the body canno...
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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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Type I Diabetes Insulin Injections
1,472 wordsAbstract Diabetes is a disease that affects 18. 2 million people in the United States alone. This disease results when there is a high level of sugar in the blood for an extended period of time. It can be controlled by diet, exercise, pills and insulin injections. There are three main types of diabetes -- Type I, which affects primarily the younger population; Type II, which primarily affects the population above 40; and gestational diabetes, which affects women during the third trimester of the...
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Type Ii Diabetes Type I Diabetes
1,436 words... y uses antibodies to attack foreign invaders. They believe that the antibodies destroy the beta cells, resulting in Type I diabetes. Type II Diabetes Accounting for 90 percent of the diabetic population are people who have Type II diabetes. The problem in this type of diabetes is that the beta cells do not produce enough insulin to meet the needs of the body. In addition to this problem, the cells in the body do not react appropriately to the available insulin in the body because they cannot...
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1,404 wordsDiabetes Type II Half of the 16 million people walking around with type II diabetes don't even know they have it. That's because the symptoms they " re experiencing are easily attributed to something else. When an older woman complains of clouded eyesight, it's likely her doctor will think of cataracts instead of type III (or non insulin-dependent) diabetes. And when an older man starts taking too many trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night, a prostate problem -- not diabetes -- is oft...
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Control Of Blood Glucose Levels
1,262 wordsControl of Blood Glucose Levels Abnormal blood glucose level is an inherited condition caused by a defect or defects in the gene that codes for the enzyme, glucose- 6 -phosphate dehydrogenase (G 6 PD). It can cause hemolytic anemia, varying in severity from life-long anemia, to rare bouts of anemia to total unawareness of the condition. The episodes of hemolytic anemia are usually triggered by oxidants, infection, or by eating fava beans. Abnormal blood glucose level is the most common enzyme de...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Blood Glucose Levels
925 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a disorder caused by decreased production of insulin, or by decreased ability to use insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that is necessary for cells to be able to use blood sugar. The cause of diabetes mellitus is unknown, but heredity and diet are believed to play a role in its development. Diabetes results when the pancreas produces insufficient amounts of insulin to meet the bodys needs. It can also result when the pancreas produces insulin, but the cel...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Red Blood Cells
929 wordsDeciding to have a child is one of the most important decisions of people? s lives. Diabetes is a very serious disease. It attacks million people around the world many of them women. These women one day may be thinking about having a baby. Numerous precautions must be taken by women during pregnancy. Special safeguard must be taken by women with diabetes. These precautions need to be taken due to birth defects. ? An estimated 1. 5 million women of child-bearing age in the United States have diab...
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Type Ii Diabetes Type I Diabetes
1,299 wordsDiabetes 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. It is no wonder that diabetes...
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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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Type I Diabetes People With Type
518 wordsDiabetes is a Diabetes DIABETES Diabetes is a chronic illness but it is not fatal. A chronic illness is classified as an illness with no cure and has symptoms that persist over a long period of time. Diabetes is not a fatal illness, except in a few rare and severe cases. It is one of the most common chronic illnesses that a person can get. About 16 million Americans have diabetes and diabetes is most common in Hispanics and native Americans. About 5 % (800, 000) have type I which only occurs in ...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels
2,674 wordsMan has long Diabetes HISTORY Man has long recognized diabetes mellitus, and this disorder? or a syndrome resembling it? was well known to the ancients. The original clinical description must now be lost in antiquity, but Lazarus and Volk in their excellent historical review attributed the earliest writings on this subject to the papyrus Ebers (circa 1500 B. C. ). The term? diabetes? that we use today was introduced in more recent times by Aretaeus of Capdocia shortly after the birth of Christ. ...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Johns Hopkins
1,713 wordsPED 540 Prof. Diabetes John Mclaughlin PED 540 Prof. Hager 3 / 10 / 00 Pledge: DIABETES In the United States, an estimated 16 million people have diabetes. Diabetes is a serious lifelong condition. Half the 16 million people who have diabetes do not even realize the condition exists and are not receiving treatment. 798, 000 people each year are diagnosed with diabetes. It occurs most often in adults, but it is also one of the most chronic disorder in children. It is estimated that 123, 000 child...
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Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
1,356 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States nearly one out of every 17 people have diabetes. And about 1, 800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as diabetes mellitus, diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. All of them are a little different. But everyone w...
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Blood Glucose Levels Blood Sugar Levels
1,099 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States have diabetes, the disease classified as a problem with insulin. The problem could be that your body does not make insulin, does not make enough, or it simply does not know how to use it properly. Diabetes is also known as diabetes mellitus. There are many types of diabetes. The two I will be discussing are type 1 and type 2. Type 1 generally affects young people and requires treatment with insulin. Five to ten percent of Americans with diabetes have...
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Type Ii Diabetes Type I Diabetes
1,064 wordsDiabetes: The Silent Killer You sink into your oversized bean bag, tears flowing down your face. You just got back from the doctors office. Your test came back and you are the results are positive-your diabetes has been confirmed! You knew you had to be careful because your dad has it, but now you? Your life is falling apart. Just as you are about to break down crying again, your email system rings on your computer, You have mail. You open it, expecting junk mail, instead it is titled Diabetes. ...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Kill Cancer Cells
1,741 wordsThe pancreas Pancreas The Pancreas The pancreas is located in the middle of the abdomen. It s surrounded by the stomach, small intestine, liver and spleen. It s about six inches long and shaped like a thin pear, wide at one end. It has three sections: wider right end is the head, the middle is the body and the left end is the tail. The pancreas has two functions; to make enzymes that help digest fats and proteins and the other, to produce insulin that controls the blood sugar level called glucos...
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