Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Statistics Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), also termed as type 1 diabetes mellitus, is prevalent in the entire globe. In the United States, data has indicated ethnic and racial prevalence disparity. According to CDC (2014), 9. 3 percent of Americans have diabetes. Those already diagnosed are 21 million individuals, while 27.
4. Hypoglycemia is the clinical syndrome that results from low blood sugar. The symptoms of hypoglycemia can vary from person to person, 5. You would go to the doctors for a diagnosis and the doctor may refer you for a blood test or a urine sample. Outcome 2 1.If you have type 1 diabetes, you may: * pass more urine than
The risk for being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes is higher for people who are older, obese, have family history of the disease and who do not exercise. In Type 2 diabetes the symptoms appear slower than do in Type 1 diabetes. Some of the symptoms are the same, but the symptoms for Type 2 are: urinating often, losing weight unexpectedly, feeling tired and hungry, sores that will not heal blurry eyesight and being thirsty. Type-2 diabetes can be managed with eating healthy, exercising, and checking your blood sugar. Some people may also have to take medications.
Risk assessment for by the USPSTF breaks the use of aspirin down by age and by gender. For men, risk factors for coronary heart disease include age, diabetes, total cholesterol level, HDL level, blood pressure and smoking, for women, they include, age high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, history of cardiovascular disease, atrial fibrillation and left ventricular hypertrophy ("U.S. Preventive Services Task Force," n.d.). Nearly one fourth of all cardiovascular deaths are preventable according to the CDC. Strategies to improve the survival rates are aimed at education, and promoting the use of aspirin when appropriate, blood pressure and cholesterol management and smoking cessation. With this information available to both the consumer and the provider, this aids in helping both make informed decisions ("Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,"
Report on George’s food choices I will be analysing a person health the person is a Nigerian man called George. George is a middle class working man. George has diabetes and is over weight but also his partner who he is married to is over weight too. George has not been exercising for 4 years as this is important to do because he suffering from diabetes. There are six main areas I will be mainly be focusing on and also I will be giving him advice on what he could do to improve his way of lifestyle to become healthier.
And other symptoms like blurred vision, dry skin and feel extreme tired. For some people who have serious disease may develop symptoms like numbness or tingling of fingers and toes, fluid retention in legs and feet. When you get skin wounds, it is not easy to be healing. Frequent feel headaches, dizziness and nervous. Some people are not able to concentrate and even change the mood.
Globally 285 million people currently have diabetes, which is estimated to double by 2030. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) currently states that the top 5 countries with the highest amount of diabetic patients are as follows: * United States * Russia * Brazil * China * India 1.3 Describe possible key long-term complications to health as a result of having diabetes One of which a long term complication that diabetes can occur is having high blood sugar levels over a long period of time. This is the only factor that someone's risk for complications, genetics can also have a negative impact. The major
According to National Institutes of Health (2011), "Children with obesity-related diabetes may have serious difficulties making basic lifestyle changes” (Obese teens and diabetes, para.). According to California diabetes program (2009) "Pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes in children and are growing public health problems. Type 2 diabetes represents 8-45 percent of pediatric patients with diabetes currently diagnosed in large pediatric centers in the United States. Young patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are generally overweight, typically inactive, have a
Doctors have found biological connections between fat, insulin, and the high blood sugar levels that define the disease. The CDC estimates that 55 percent of adult diabetics are obese, significantly more than the 31 percent prevalence of obesity in the general population. And as obesity has become more common, so, too, has diabetes, suggesting that one may cause the other. Yet the critics dispute claims that diabetes is soaring (even among children), that obesity is the cause, and that weight loss is the solution. A 2003 analysis by the CDC found that “the prevalence of diabetes, either diagnosed or undiagnosed, and of impaired fasting glucose did not appear to increase substantially during the 1990s,” despite the sharp rise in obesity.
The diabetes disorder affects people of both the urban and rural India. It is becoming a growing problem in the slum of urban, India (David, 2011; Jha and Durgesh, 2013). 3.1. Existing facts about diabetes in India India is the diabetes capital of the world. Currently, there are 40 million diabetics living in India and by 2025 this number will be increased to 70 million.