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November is National Diabetes month, which aims to spread awareness and education about a disease that impacts millions of Americans. Diabetes is a disease that affects the entire family, especially when a child is diagnosed. Every year, 13,000 kids are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and more than 1 million American live with the disease every day. Type 1 diabetes is categorized as an autoimmune disease in which the body’s pancreas does not make enough insulin. Insulin helps the body convert…

What is glycogen storage diseases type I (GSD1)? Glycogen Storage disease type I (GSD1) is the most common type of glycogen storage disease detected in most people. An inherited defect in the enzyme glucose – 6 – phosphatase (G6Pase) is the sole cause of this metabolic disease. GSD1 can be categorized even further into two sub categories based on its location and other defects, GSD type Ia and GSD type Ib. Without G6Pase properly functioning, there would be a break in the final step of…

to someone eating bad or not staying healthy and actually typically is found in children and young adults. “T1D is a T cell driven disease and the beta cells are destroyed in an inflammatory insulitis process. Autoimmunity is breakdown of self‐tolerance and the balance between regulator T cells and aggressive effector T cells is disturbed” (Buschard). Most individuals who are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes may still produce some insulin; however, over time will need to get insulin shots or an…

BRIEFING: DIABETES AMONG BLACK, LATINO, AND NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATIONS TO: CHAIR, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON HEALTH DISPARITIES, NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM: JANEL GRANT, DATE: SEPTEMBER 19, 2015 Executive Summary The burden of diabetes is more prevalent among minorities than the white population. While minorities are more likely than whites to be diagnosed with diabetes, the rates of difficulties differ by disease and minority group. Diabetes is detrimental among the Black, Latino, and Native…

is because they are overweight and have very little activity in their life. Tests doctors do to determine if someone has type two diabetes include Glycated hemoglobin test (A1C), random blood sugar test, fasting blood sugar test, and oral glucose tolerance test. The A1C test indicates someone’s average blood sugar level over the past two to three months. Which measures the percentage of the blood sugar attached to the hemoglobin. If the A1C level is 6.5 or higher this indicates diabetes. Random…

Prediabetics and Reversal Options by Emma Conine INTRODUCTION Diabetes has multiple causes which divides into two separate types. Type one diabetes is caused by the lack or insufficient production of the hormone insulin. Type two diabetes is caused by insulin resistance. There is now a way to determine whether a patient may be on the verge of developing type two diabetes. This is known as prediabetes. Prediabetes is linked to diabetes type two due to the fact that diabetes type two is an…

All the animal experiments were performed in accordance with the guidelines established by the Animal Ethics Committee of Wonkwang University, and this experiment was approved by the committee (Approval No. WKU15-101). To evaluate the effect of BGE on fasting blood glucose levels, C57BL/6J (dbdb) 30 mice (20 –25g, 4 weeks, male Lepr(+/+)) and C57BL/6J (dbh) 10 mice (20–25g, 4 weeks, male Lepr(+/-)) were used as the animal model. All the animals were purchased from SAMTACO (Osan, Korea) All the…

probiotic to treat the type 2 diabetes that cause by high fructose (19). They allocated animals into a normal group, a control group of consumption high fructose and high fructose-treated group for eight weeks (19). Moreover, through the oral glucose tolerance test, blood and tissue sample for the data collection, the result demonstrated most of values such as blood glucose and free fatty acids, plasma insulin and cholesterol were increased significantly in the high fructose-feeding group after…

Glucose Test can be used by the doctor. This test assesses blood sugar levels, regardless of the last meal consumed. If blood sugar levels are > than 200mg/dl, then the patient is considered to have Type 2 diabetes; fourth, is the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test. This test involves an overnight fast, drinking a liquid high in sugar and taking periodic tests that indicate blood sugar levels over several hours. If after two hours there is a reading > 200mg/dl, the patient is diagnosed with…

Title: The Effects of Exercise and Diet on Cognitive Function Abstract: The overall objective of the experiment was to observe the overall effect exercise and a healthy balanced diet on cognitive function after a period of two months and compare the results obtained for a person who did not regularly exercise and eat healthy meals. Physical activity commenced for 45 minutes, four days a week over a period of two months. Pulse rate and glucose levels were taken to record blood sugar levels…