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Article on Diabetes Patients

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Added on  2020-04-07

Article on Diabetes Patients

   Added on 2020-04-07

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DIABETES PREVENTION2AbstractThis paper explores diabetes as a common disease around the world. It broadly defines the topic; outline its statistics, causes, and prevention. This article has been written to help persons from being diagnosed with diabetes; helps diabetes patients to overcome the disease and also to help research students to understand the topic further. A research of 50 people picked randomly shows that 32 of them either have diabetes or are a risk of being diagnosed with the disease, 15 of them are at an age of 65 years and above and 10 are either obese or unhealthy. Although this paper deals with diabetes, it also emphasis broadly on diabetes prevention measures.IntroductionDiabetes / diabetes mellitus, is a human disorder where a blood sugar/ glucose surpassestheir normal level either due to inadequate insulin production in the body known as type 1 diabetes or if the body cells are unable to respond properly to insulin (type 2 diabetes) or even both cases (American Diabetes Association, 2014). A person can also have pre-diabetes which isa case where the blood sugars are higher than normal but have not reached the levels of being called diabetes. A person in this situation is more prone to getting type 2 diabetes. Glucose comes from foods that a person eats mostly carbohydrates such as bread, rice, pasta, etc., while insulin is a hormone that gets into a person’s cells to help glucose produce energy. Pregnant women are at a risk of getting gestation diabetes as this facilitated by inability of the body to make/use the insulin needed during pregnancy. Statistics done by Americans Diabetes Association in 2015 shows that 30.3 million Americans (9.4% of American’s population) had diabetes and 20.3% of that population was
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DIABETES PREVENTION3diagnosed and 7.2% were undiagnosed. Most of those patients were found to be 65 years and above. The study also shows that 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes annually and 81.4 million Americans of 18 years and above had pre-diabetes. The majority cause of death in the year 2015 was proved to be diabetes with approximately 80,000 death cases pointing it as the leading cause of death and approximately 250,000 death cases indicating that diabetes was a contributing /underlying determinant of death (American Diabetes Association, 2015).Diabetes type 1cause is usually unknown, what is known is that insulin-producing cells are destroyed by immune system leaving insufficient insulin in the body. Scientists think that thistype is caused by genetic susceptibility and environmental factors. In type 2 diabetes which is themost common type, cells become resistant to insulin and the pancreas which is used to make insulin is unable to make enough of it to overcome this problem, causing glucose building up in the body. This type is caused by lifestyle factors and genes including being obesity, overweight and physical inactiveness (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014).Endocrinologists are specialists in disorders such as diabetes, and as such, they manage patients with diabetes. The primary goal in treating/preventing diabetes is mainly to control glucose levels within normal range. To treat type 1 diabetes, a patient must take insulin mainly because their body does not make this hormone and the patient can also use insulin pump as it gives steady dose throughout the day. Patients with type 2 diabetes can manage this disease by engaging in physical activities and making healthy food. Diabetes type 2 patients also need diabetes medicines either pills or in extreme cases injecting insulin under the skin.Diabetes prevention
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