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in United States including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations. (Kelly, n.d.). Diabetes has affected more than 12 million people in the United States alone. 85% of individuals diagnosed with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in United States (ADA, 2014). Early detection and life style modifications are main factors to help control T2DM. This paper will offer an insight into the article “Exenatide QW: A new treatment option for Type2 diabetes offering…

What causes diabetes is when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t produce any insulin. Diabetes is an incurable disease. However people with type 2 diabetes most times go into remission. Remission is when all symptoms of diabetes can disappear. That can happen when people exercise daily and eat healthier and they manage to keep a healthy lifestyle. When at the borderline to getting diabetes you can easily prevent it by going to the doctor getting prescribed medicine and changing…

a change in diet, reducing sugar and carbohydrate in-take and adding exercise, plus the insulin injections. The patient must use caution when exercising, sugar levels can drop fast, close monitoring and insulin amounts adjusted accordingly. Type 2 diabetes usually starts treatment with a balanced diet, low in fats, cholesterol, and simple sugars, and exercise, and to stop smoking. If diet and exercise fails to control the glucose counts, oral medication may be added. The oral medication can…

lacking enough insulin to be used as soon as it is available in the body. As the body continues to undergo this process, one will become insulin resistant causing the pancreas to produce less insulin (Web MD, Diabetes: Differences Between Type 1 and 2 - Topic Overview, 2014).…

Problem Statement Diabetes is a health issue with an increasing rate of diagnosed cases in many communities in the United States. Type II occurs when the pancreas can’t produce enough insulin and lack the ability to take in insulin. It leads to a higher reading of glucose levels, which increases the risk of metabolic complications throughout one’s life (NDEP-“The Diabetes Epidemic”, n.d.). Epidemiology While diabetes most prominently affects the Hispanic/Latino community, it is only in the…

Diabetes is an illness in which a person’s blood comprehends more glucose than it ought to. Which will cause a health problem that can turn out to be deadly if not cured accurately. There are several different forms of diabetes, and each form is managed in a different way. Some types of diabetes can be reversed but others can’t. Glucose powers the cells in the human body’s tissue and muscles. Both type one and type two diabetes are chronic disorders that there is no treatment for them.…

Presentation about Type 2 Diabetes Amber Klinkhammer Introduction: I. Attention Getter: A candy bar, a simple sweet candy bar calling your name. Have you ever thought that a candy bar could kill someone? For somebody with diabetes that is exactly what a candy bar could do. II. Listener Relevance: This is an especially scary disease because anybody who makes poor lifestyle choices can end up with type 2 diabetes. III. Speaker Credibility: I know several people with type 2 diabetes,…

The cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus are on the rise, especially in the elderly population in the U.S. According to a study conducted by Centers for Disease Control (2017), about 25.2% of American age 65 years and older have diabetes out of the total population of 30.3 million Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and this incidence is more common among some ethnic groups than the other. Due to many complications associated with this disorder, many factors such as lifestyle, societal factors…

diagnosed with type 1. With type 2, diabetes it is mostly connected with a family history, but like type 1, type 2 also is an environmental factor of why a person contracts it. The lifestyles of a person helps depend on habits and exercise habits tend to be the same, so being in a family who is obese and struggles with their weight there is a higher chance of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. People dealing with pre-diabetes can have a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes, stroke, and…

J.T. is a 76-year-old male who has been living with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 for the last 25 years. He was diagnosed back in the early 1990’s and has since been additionally diagnosed with hypertension and hyperlipidemia, both of which are frequently seen in diabetics. He is currently taking: Metformin HCl tabs 500 mg PO BID and Glipizide XL tabs 2.5 mg PO once a day to control his diabetes; Benazepril HCl tabs 20 mg PO once a day and Amlodipine Besylate tabs 5 mg PO once a day to control his…