Diabetes Mellitus Monica Kinney Colorado Technical University BIO 162 Judy Thompson April 13, 2011 According to the American Diabetes Association, “Diabetes mellitus, or simply, diabetes, is a group of diseases characterized by high blood glucose levels that result from defects in the body’s ability to produce and or use insulin.” Diabetes is the most common disorder of the endocrine system ad effects more than 23 million people in the United States alone (Web MD, 2011). There are two types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2. Type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is an autoimmune disease, a condition which the immune system turns against the body. The body’s white blood cells mistakenly attack the insulin-producing pancreatic
Introduction One of the most challenging community and public health issues facing the United States today is childhood obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the past thirty years overweight children in the US have more than double in children and tripled in adolescents (“Childhood obesity facts”, 2013). The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced similar concerns and reported nearly one third of children and adolescents are overweight, and committed to an $8 million dollar commitment aimed at reversing this epidemic by 2015. The Healthy People 2020 objectives have shown convincing science supporting a healthy and nutritional diet lifestyle. These objectives are focusing on the health risk
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Type II diabetes mainly occurs when an adult catches an onset of diabetes. Although it is not limited to adults Type II diabetes has been found in teenagers and in some children. Type II diabetes is when the cells don’t produce enough insulin or when the cells of the body completely ignore the insulin that is being made from the pancreas. Even though, Type I and Type II are both considered a form of diabetes, they differ so much that doctors have theorized that they are actually two different diseases. However, they have one thing in common, they both encounter that there is too much sugar in the
Caring for populations: assessment and diagnosis Barbara Vonarx Chamberlain Community Nursing NR443 Connie Ash November 23, 2013 Caring for populations: assessment and diagnosis INTRODUCTION According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), childhood obesity in the United States is now 17%; triple the rate just one generation ago. ("Childhood," 2013) Because of this growing problem with a preventable affliction, it seems that community health must be focused on methods to turn the trend around and promote healthy lifestyles for parents and children. The scope of the problem can be evaluated if one looks at the correlation between demographic risk factors, socioeconomic status and community resources. COMMUNITY Merced California
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Some of the complications are as follow: Heart attack and stroke occur 2 to 4 times more frequently in persons with diabetes than in those without the disease. Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death in adults with diabetes. Inadequately controlled hypertension and dyslipidemia are 2 comorbidities that contribute to the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) and stroke. It is well recognized that lipid disorders and hypertension also occur in children with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is an independent risk factor for CAD, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.]
It may be because he had become depressed. This is fairly common. ‘People with diabetes are 1.5 to two times as likely to have a depressive disorder compared with people who do not have diabetes.’ Stated from Encouraging effective self-management in diabetes, William H. Polonsky. However, I feel that if a more focussed, intense, education programme had been commenced at the initial stages of diagnosis, Anwar and his family may have coped better with the diabetes. As it was, Anwar was struggling with this change in lifestyle and daily job of managing the disease.
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