There are a couple type of Diabetes but the most common one that people have in the U.S. is Type 2. There has never been a cure found for people living with diabetes, but there has been a way to keep from a diabetes attack and from making sure that it does not get worse. It is known that the U.S. is the place known for having more people with diabetes anywhere else. The biggest step when finding out that you have diabetes is having a helping hand or the caregiver, and making sure that they know…
people around the globe have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the diabetes disease. Diabetes occurs when blood glucose levels rise higher than the normal, better known as hyperglycemia. Another factor that triggers diabetes is the human body’s lack of production of insulin. Insulin keeps the blood glucose level in the body at a normal level, but without it, high levels of sugar in the blood begin to take place. While diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the…
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in North Americans today. There are two type of diabetes that people are at risk for. Diabetes type I: when a child or a young adult has an insulin deficiency due to their immune system destroying the pancreatic cells that produce insulin in the body. Diabetes type II is the most common type in many adults throughout the nation. It is also becoming more common in young children today. Diabetes type II: when a person is lacking enough insulin…
There are two major types of diabetes. One is type 1 diabetes which is previously called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or juvenile-onset diabetes, the other is type 2 diabetes which is previously called non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or maturity-onset diabetes. 1. Beginnings In 1552 B.C, Hesy-Ra who was an Egyptian physician documented frequently urination as a symptom of a mysterious disease that also caused weakness. Also around this time, ancient healers attented that ants…
doctor because these are a few symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. If diagnosed with this disease, a couple of questions that you may have are: “What causes type 2 Diabetes?” and “What are researchers doing to find a cure?” The initial question concerning this disease is what causes type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes occurs when insulin secretion does not efficiently meet the insulin demands of the body, which results in hyperglycemia. “Type 2 diabetes mellitus signifies hyperglycemia, which is…
Type 2 diabetes is often asymptomatic, and it is the most prevalent form of diabetes. In the early stage, type 2 diabetes manifestation is unpredictable; therefore, it can remain undiagnosed for many years. According to the American Diabetes Association, there are 30.3 million adults with diabetes, 23.1 million were diagnosed, and the remaining 7.2 million were undiagnosed; therefore, this program is for the 7.2 million who would die or lost limbs from diabetes complication before they can have…
of getting diabetes, you need to understand what just what is diabetes. According to the experts, diabetes is a chronic disease which develops when people lose the ability to utilize the glucose in their food for energy. When the glucose accumulates in your bloodstream over a long time you get diabetes. The accumulated glucose, over time, can cause damage to your kidneys, eyes, heart and sometimes even your nerves. There are three major forms of diabetes. They are known as Type 1, Type 2, and…
Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” (1) deals with the question of examining long-term relationship between caffeine consumption and incidents of type 2 diabetes mellitus. This prospective cohort study is significant because prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus has increased in the past decade and this increase is associated with diet and lifestyle factors, among which caffeine consumption occupies one of the central places. Therefore, the relationship between caffeine and type 2 diabetes…
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease affecting around 347 million people word wide. It splits into 2 main types; Type 1 with 10% off all cases, affecting children and adults and it sally inherited and type 2 with approximately 90% of all cases, normally caused by a high fat, high sugar diet and a lack of exercise. It is the body’s inability to either produce enough insulin in the pancreas or to respond to the insulin produces, leading to unpredictably high or low glucose levels and…
Diabetes type 2. Prevention is better than treatment. Jóhanna Guðmundsdóttir Diabetes type 2 is common disease a disease that couse cronic hyperglycaemia. The disease and it´s complications can by life threatening and reduse the quality of life. It‘s lifelong disease and usually begins in people over forty. The disease is strongly assosiated with obesity and physical inactivity.1 Over the last few decades the disease has been increaseing in the western countries following the obesity pandemic…