Type 1 Diabetes Case Study

The first thing that comes into my mind when i hear about Type 1 diabetes is friend of mine, who suffers under this disease. Always by his side his insulin-measurement system directly connected to his blood stream and figuring out if his insulin level is high enough to for example participate in sports or even go to school. Ian, my friend, is not the only one who is affected by this disease. Only in the united States the number of affected people grows by 80,000 patients every year, while countries like Japan have a, in comparison, low rate of new diabetes patients.
But what causes this disease? A question, which isn't easy to answer, or so far not to answer. The cause of diabetes is so far unknown and still a big question mark for scientist and researchers, that create a whole bunch of different theorems dealing with this diseases' cause. One of them is a theory that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune response of the immune system which …show more content…
Primarily, in this case we talk about the cardiovascular system which can't fulfill its task to transport or the transformation of nutrients. Secondarily, the digestive system isn't able to fulfill its task either way because of the missing insulin that should usually represent a huge part in a normal functioning system. A system which is actually involved in the cause of diabetes is the Lymphatic system or the immune system whose destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas as part of a malfunction of the autoimmune defense is more than essential to talk about, dealing with diabetes .Further related systems are the systems which are affected by the symptoms of diabetes as for example the urinary system, which can get temporarily uncontrollable for the diabetes patient or the integumentary system related to dry skin, which could be a symptom for