Type 1 Diabetes Paper

“Diabetes is the condition in which the body does not properly process food for use as energy” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), n.d.). “Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), n.d.). “The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), n.d.). “When you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use its own insulin as well as it should” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), n.d.). “This causes sugars to build up in your blood” (Centers for Disease Control …show more content…
“The body breaks down the sugars and starches you eat into a simple sugar called glucose, which it uses for energy” (American Diabetes Association, 1995-2015). “Insulin is a hormone that the body needs to get glucose from the bloodstream into the cells of the body” (American Diabetes Association, 1995-2015). “Symptoms of type 1 diabetes usually develop quickly, over a few days to weeks, and are caused by high blood sugar” (WebMD, n.d.). “At first, symptoms may be overlooked or mistaken for another illness, like the flu” (WebMD, n.d.). “High blood sugar symptoms include: urinating a lot; being very thirsty; losing weight, increased hunger; blurry vision; feeling very tired” (WebMD, …show more content…
“The HLA on chromosome 6 was the first locus shown to be associated with the disease by candidate gene studies and is considered to contribute about half of the familial basis of type 1 diabetes” (NCBI, 2006). “Two combinations of HLA genes (or haplotypes) are of particular importance: DR4-DQ8 and DR3-DQ2 are present in 90% of children with type 1 diabetes” (NCBI, 2006). “A third haplotype, DR15-DQ6, is found in less than 1% of children with type 1 diabetes, compared with more than 20% of the general population, and is considered to be protective” (NCBI, 2006). “This genotype combining the 2 susceptibility haplotypes (DR4-DQ8/DR3-DQ2) contributes the greatest risk of the disease and is most common in children in whom the disease develops very early in life” (NCBI, 2006). “First-degree relatives of these children are themselves at greater risk of type 1 diabetes than are the relatives of children in whom the disease develops later” (NCBI, 2006). The body changes that occur while having type 1 diabetes would include “weight loss, increased hunger, blurry vision” (WebMD, n.d.). This may affect Hannah and her playing volleyball because of her vision being blurry. The more she works out the more she’ll feel the