Gestational diabetes

Periodontitis and Diabetes Introduction Periodontitis is a serious gum disease that can cause adverse effects on daily life. From moderate to severe cases it affects 13 to 15 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five. (Page, 1998) If not routinely monitored, it is common for this disease to advance until symptoms become severely noticeable. Research confirms that periodontal disease is also linked to several other diseases, and most commonly found in people with…

PCOS) is a disorder that is expected in patients with irregular menses, acne, seborrhea, hirsutism, infertility, and alopecia. PCOS has recently been associated with the metabolic syndrome. Patients may develop obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, liver disease, and sleep apnea. Clinical diagnosis would include hematological and radiological tests. Management would be a combined effort between a patient’s dermatologist, endocrinologist, gynecologist, and nutritionist. Long…

What is diabetes? Diabetes is a condition defined as the process in which our bodies produce too much blood sugar or blood glucose. Sugars come from the foods we eat that we need to fuel our bodies. Our blood contains glucose because we need this for energy but diabetes patients have too much glucose in their bodies which is unhealthy. Types of Diabetes I. Pre-Diabetes: When blood glucose levels are higher than doctors would normally like but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.…

One non-communicable disease is Diabetes. Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin this causes elevated levels of glucose in the blood. How is Diabetes contracted? Well it all starts with the pancreas, one of the pancreases functions is to manufacture a hormone (insulin) and secrete the hormone into the bloodstream. When we eat our food like carbs, fats, and proteins it gets broken down in our intestine and then absorbed into the…

Type I Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) is a chronic illness where the body is unable to produce insulin due to an autoimmune destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. Insufficient amount of insulin in the blood means inadequate amounts of glucose leading to high blood sugar level. NIDDM is a genetic disease that usually occurs in children or young adults, there is no cure found yet, but it can be managed. Symptoms may include polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia, dry skin,…

Some people are born with a genetic susceptibility, are exposed to environmental factors or viruses, or they have a pancreas that falls under attack – that’s when Type 1 diabetes may develop. We still do not know for sure what causes it but it’s usually attributed to an autoimmune process and many individuals with this type of diabetes…

and without this glucose would not enter the cells of the body and blood sugar levels would rise in the blood, resulting in hyperglycemia. This process of high sugar in the blood without metabolism will eventually develop into Diabetes Mellitus. There are two types of Diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. Either the body becomes autoimmune and starts destroying the beta cells of the pancreas, thus no insulin produced, or the cells of the body become resistant to the insulin or the production of insulin…

Progress in Healthcare in the United States In the last 10-20 years there has been substantial progress towards the improvement of healthcare. The life expectancy in the United States has been increasing every year for both males and females. There has been large leaps in technological advancements in Healthcare which has led a large increase in the quality of Healthcare. With increases in technology, the productivity of Healthcare staff has greatly improved and the accuracy of the diagnoses…

Diabetes Lorraine Fonger South University Illness and Disease Across Life Span NSG4055 Dan Lane March 3, 2018 Diabetes How many people do you know that have been or are affected by diabetes? Probably more than you may realize. The number of people that have diabetes is growing more every year. According to the American Diabetes Association “from 2007 to 2012, the cost of diagnosed diabetes rose from $174 billion to $245 billion, an approximate 41% increase” (American Diabetes Association,…

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 insulin resistant…