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Diabetes
Diabetes is a very well known disease that is widely misunderstood as a mild, manageable condition. Diabetes can be fatal. ... The incidence of diabetes in the U. ... has increased by 41 percent over the past decade (Becton Dickinson, Diabetes). Experts say diabetes is partly genetic and at least partly behavioral. ... Diabetes causes significant lifestyle alterations.
Diabetes is defined as a long-term disease that disrupts the bodys ability to use a sugar called glucose. ... The formal medical term for the disease is diabetes mellitus. Although diabetes mellitus is named for the overproduction of sugary urine (mellitus means “honey sweet”) was reported by physicians of ancient Greece, it was not until the twentieth century that is began to be understood (Bryan Bunch, 5). ... Diabetes disrupts the bodys mechanisms for moving glucose out of the bloodstream and using it in cells. ... In addition, diabetes increases risk of arteriosclerosis. ... Diabetes affects more than 100 million people worldwide. ...
There are several types of diabetes mellitus, but the two major types are type I and type II. ... Type I diabetes is also called juvenile diabetes. ... In this form of diabetes, the pancreas produces little or no insulin. ... For this reason, type I diabetes is also called insulin-dependent diabetes. Type I diabetes affects about three people in one thousand in the United States (David E. ... In the general failure of insulin production for type I diabetes comes from the immune system attacking the insulin producing cells in the pancreas. Therefore type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease, but with a strong hereditary component. ... There are a number of theories as to what second event causes the immune system of a person who is genetically susceptible to diabetes to attack that person’s own beta cells, which are special cells in the pancreas. ... Type I diabetes is initially the more serious and less common, afflicting approximately one in every six hundred children. ... Although it usually appears before the age of 20, type I diabetes can strike at any age (Jaime Davidson and Peter E. ...
Type II diabetes is sometimes called adult-onset diabetes. The name “adult-onset” comes from the fact that Type II diabetes usually does not appear until a person grows older. ... Type 2 diabetes, also called non-insulin dependent diabetes, usually appears in people more than 45 years old. ... The initial symptoms of type II diabetes are much less noticeable than those of type I, and the characteristics triad of polyuria, polydipsia, and polyphagia may even be entirely absent. For this reason, type II diabetes can exist undetected for dangerously long periods. Victims are not prone to the ketoacidosis and coma that threaten type I patients, and their diabetes can usually be managed without insulin injections. Thus two other names for type II diabetes are nonketosis-prone diabetes and noninsulin-dependent diabetes.
Whereas type I diabetes is a disease of insulin shortage, victims of type II diabetes usually have insulin in their bloodstream. ... This may explain why type II diabetes is mainly a disease of the obese, and why weight reduction is such an effective therapy. ...
Diabetes insipidus is a rare form of diabetes. ... If the pituitary fails to produce vasopressin, the condition is called central diabetes insipidus. If the kidneys do not respond to the vasopressin and fail to concentrate urine, the condition is labeled nonphrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Approximate Word count = 2736
Approximate Pages = 10.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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