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What causes type 2 diabetes? Eating too much and exercising too little can increase the risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Insulin is a hormone made in the pancreas, which allows glucose (sugar) to leave the bloodstream and enter the cells to be used as fuel. Going from type 2 diabetes when the pancreas does not make enough insulin or the body's cells become resistant to insulin. It is not known for sure why some people develop type 2 diabetes and others do not. There are many factors,…

see your 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,…

Type 2 diabetes is a condition that is becoming diagnosed more frequently. The risks associated with the condition are not known to everyone, and some believe that diagnosis does not occur until a much older age. However, if left untreated the condition can lead to serious complications, and people have been diagnosed at younger ages every year. With that in mind, the question I propose is what are the different ways a family can work on preventing type 2 diabetes? This research question is…

to children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Children have different characteristics and needs that, cause a different standards of care and management of type 1 diabetes. This article discusses how type 1 diabetes in children is diagnosed, the care management the occurs based off of the child’s age, diabetes education, options for monitoring blood sugar, nutrition & exercise recommendations, risk factors and psychosocial issues regarding the diagnoses of type 1 diabetes, chronic and acute…

world? Myers-Briggs Type Indicator also known as Mbti, is an assessment to aid people gain insight on how they learn, feel, perceive and react. Most people think Mbti is a silly, inaccurate personality test you do for fun, but the science behind it is interesting and it’s important for society to get in the know. Mbti is an assessment about 60 questions long. Based on your nearly unique or unique answer choices you selection are the ones that determine which out of the 16 types you are. Once…

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…

of diagnosis because the body is still able to produce some amount of the hormone. However, after about three to twelve months they often need an outside source of insulin on a permanent basis (Lewis et al., 2014). Type II Diabetes Mellitus Type II DM (T2DM) is the most prevalent type of DM, accounting for over 90% of all diabetes…

Australia is facing an increasing epidemic of type 2 diabetes. Obesity is thought to be the primary cause of diabetes. There are approximately one million people living with diabetes. The first part of this video explained how inflammation caused by type 2 diabetes destroys pancreatic cells and dramatically decreases the production of insulin. The two main problems related to insulin in type 2 diabetes are insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion. Insulin resistance refers to a…

least three different types of diabetes mellitus, however; I would be talking about type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can also be known as late-onset diabetes, or non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) which is a disease caused by the production of too little or no insulin by the pancreas. Other causes include body cells having too few insulin receptors, obesity, high blood pressure, pregnancy, and high cholesterol levels in the blood. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type to be…

I seem to come up with new analogies for type 1 diabetes everyday. Stuff like, “Diabetes is like a small baby, when it’s crying there seems to be nothing you can do for it.” All just random little phrases to lighten up the situation. I guess one of those times where my diabetes was “crying” is when I was on syringes and I couldn’t get my blood sugars under control and they were just constantly hovering up in the 400’s. A normal blood sugar should be somewhere in between the range of 80-180 so I…