Diabetes Diabetes is a disease in which your body is unable to properly use and store glucose. Glucose backs up in the bloodstream causing your blood glucose or "sugar" to rise too high. There are two major types of diabetes‚ Type I and Type II. In Type I diabetes‚ your body completely stops producing any insulin‚ a hormone that lets your body use glucose found in foods for energy. People with Type I diabetes must take daily insulin injections to survive. This form of diabetes usually develops
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1. Introduction 22 Diabetes mellitus is the 7th leading cause of death in US. Diabetes is broadly classified into two 23 types: type I and type II. Type I diabetes is a result of insufficient insulin production by pancreas‚ 24 whereas type II diabetes is due to the body’s inability to use the insulin that is produced‚ hence the 25 name insulin resistance is used to refer to type II diabetes. Currently‚ individuals with diabetes are 26 able to monitor their blood glucose levels using a glucometer
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How will Diabetes Affect Our Body and Lives? Shannon Ashley HS200 Section #4 Unit 4 Capstone Project: Diabetes Kaplan University May 12‚ 2014 The first steps in understanding your diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes is understanding the disease and how it affects you. What do you need to know? First‚ you will need to know what diabetes is and how it affects your body and your life. You will need to know what type of diabetes you have. Next you have to know how to manage your
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Family Life with Type One Diabetes Type one diabetes affect more than the person who has it‚ it affects everyone around them too. Family life changes to adjust to the person with diabetes. Type one diabetes affects your family financially‚ emotional‚ physical and structurally Type one diabetes is hard‚ but families that work together can help make the person who has ‚ its life a little easier. Type one Diabetes has a way to of hurting the people and the people around them. One way it does hurt
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Diabetes Explanation to a 13yr Adolescent Male The doctor has wanted me to come in here and explain to you about diabetes. Diabetes is a common disease. Anyone can end up with diabetes but there some people that are at a higher risk for the disease than others. People‚ for example‚ that are not very active and they are overweight. People who have real close family like a mom or dad‚ that have diabetes are also at a higher risk for diabetes. Diabetes effects the endocrine system in our bodies‚
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is trying to turn Type One diabetes to Type None. JDRF was created to help people with type one diabetes (T1D). T1D comes out of nowhere and can be life threatening if not treated. “Symptoms of the disease can vary from person to person and include extreme thirst‚ frequent urination‚ drowsiness‚ sudden vision changes‚ an increased appetite‚ sudden weight loss‚ heavy breathing‚ sweet-smelling breath‚ and even unconsciousness.” (“A Relentless”) Type one
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Talking about diabetes in one thing. Talking about diabetes while it waits your doorstep is a whole other story. I live with a high risk of diabetes. Countless members of my family have been diagnosed with this disease and some have passed away because of it. Diabetes runs through both sides of my family. My paternal grandmother‚ my maternal grandfather‚ my maternal grandfather’s brothers‚ and my maternal grandmother’s older sister all suffer from the same disease. For all of them‚ the daily routine
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Diabetes Diabetes is a chronic metabolic in which the amount of insulin produced by the body falls below the normal range. Insulin is normally responsible for lowering the blood sugar level in the body.In the absence of the adequate amount of insulin‚ the blood sugar levels increase leading to symptoms. For example‚ frequent urination‚ extreme thirst‚ and increased hunger. There are primarily three types of diabetes; type1 ‚type 2 ‚type3. In this case the important one is type 1 i’m going to introduce
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Type 2 Diabetes Speech: What is type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin‚ this means that the person is therefore resistant to insulin or their body does not know how to react to it. The function of insulin for those who don’t know is to control blood glucose levels. Symptoms of type 2 diabetes include: Hunger Thirst Loss of eyesight Extreme fatigue Headaches Urination frequently Weight loss (even though you are feeling hungry and
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“You can’t eat that‚ it has sugar in it.” “Does that hurt?” “Is that the good or bad type of diabetes?” Listening to ignorant people talk about diabetes has to be the worst part about the disease‚ besides getting strange looks from people as you pull out your insulin and pretend its heroine. From hearing stories about someone’s great grandpa losing a foot due to diabetes and miraculously they’re an expert on the subject‚ or if one blood sugar isn’t in range‚ you’ll lose your liver. You can’t blame
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