...of Type 1 Diabetes in Children The risk of developing type 1 diabetes is higher than virtually all other severe chronic diseases of childhood. Peak incidence occurs during puberty, around 10 to 12 years of age in girls and 12 to 14 years of age in boys. Type 1 diabetes is the most serious type of diabetes and is also called Juvenile Diabetes. Type 1 diabetes develops when the body’s immune system destroys pancreatic beta cells, the only cells in the body that make the hormone insulin that regulates blood glucose. To survive, people with type 1 diabetes must have insulin delivered by injection or a pump. This form of diabetes usually strikes children and young adults, although disease onset can occur at any age. This form of diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes since it is most commonly found in young children. Children with diabetes and their families face unique challenges when dealing with diabetes. According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated 850,000 to 1.7 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. Of those, about 125,000 are kids 19 and under. The incidence of type 1 diabetes in children is increasing worldwide, with the highest increases seen in those less than 5 years of age. About 1 in every 400 to 600 children and adolescents has type 1 diabetes. Studies also reveal that 1 in every 500 children or adolescents are suffering from type 1 diabetes. More importantly, type 1 diabetes doesn't have any treatment nor can it be prevented. While type 1 diabetes...
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...Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system is activated to destroy the cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. This hormone allows your body to use the glucose from carbohydrates, found in food consumption as an energy source, as well as the storage of glucose in the body for future usage. Studies suggest that childhood diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes will develop an overly more aggressive form of the disease, than seen in teenagers, or beyond. This newly found study indicates that those who are diagnosed before the age of seven, will experience a large number of genetic disturbances such as cell loss, resulting in an outstandingly sizeable amount of insulin injections, and finger-prick blood tests needing to be had before adulthood....
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...When diabetes is diagnosed, more is needed than just the knowledge that blood sugar is abnormally high, which is the basic definition of diabetes. If you asked the average man on the street: 'What is diabetes?', the most common answer would be: 'A lack of insulin.' In fact, less than 10% of diabetics are what is known as insulin dependent, and this is usually diabetes of childhood, what is referred to these days as Type 1 diabetes. The most common form of diabetes, however, which is becoming a world-wide epidemic, is Type 2 diabetes which is caused by an entirely different underlying pathology. Usually, insulin is not given on a regular basis to treat this type of diabetes. As you can see, it is important to know which type of diabetes it is to know which treatment is...
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...Diabetes is a chronic metabolic condition associated with abnormally high levels of glucose in the blood resulting from the body's inability to produce insulin or resistance to insulin action, or both.[1] Out of all cases of diabetes, Type 1 diabetes represents 5% to 10%. Its risk factors include autoimmune, genetic, and environmental factors. To be honest, there are no known approaches to prevent type 1 diabetes. The other 90% to 95% of all diagnosed diabetes cases is represented by Type 2 diabetes. This form of diabetes usually happens when the body is unable to produce enough insulin to address the resistance. The pancreas may reduce the production of insulin or eventually stop producing it.[2] In spite of the fact that the pathogenesis...
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...Diabetes is a devastating disease that causes chronic problems globally. Diabetes comes in different forms; type 1 diabetes is caused from the pancreas inability to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that acts as a key that opens the cell to allow sugar inside to process into energy. Type 2 diabetes is caused from an insulin resistance, the cell becomes misshapen from an increase in adipose tissue that will not allow the key insulin to open the cell and allow glucose inside. This causes the glucose to be trapped in the blood stream. The blood of humans is thin like water, but as the glucose builds up in the blood stream it becomes thicker making it harder to transport through the various body systems. Diabetes is a vascular disease. It...
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...Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the body cannot use insulin properly. Another reason that diabetes may occur is because the body doesn’t make enough of the hormone insulin. 23.6 million People in the United States have diabetes. When diagnosed with diabetes, people can live a normal life if they manage it correctly (Family Doctor). Diabetes is a complex disease which is categorized into a few different types and requires a variety of treatments. There are two types of diabetes as well as Pre-diabetes. Prediabetes occurs when blood sugar levels are high, but not so high that the doctor can say that its diabetes. Pre-diabetes is becoming more common in the United States. This type of diabetes greatly increases the risk of getting type...
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...risk assignment on diabetes. In a normal healthy person’s body a fraction of food they ate will be broken down into glucose, the glucose passes into the bloodstream to the body cells through insulin that is produced by the pancreas and the pancreas produces the right amount of insulin to accommodate the quantity of sugar (glucose). But in a person with diabetes little or no insulin is produce or their cells do not respond as it should to insulin. The sugar then builds up in the blood, overflows into the urine and passes from the person’s body unused. ( (n.d) from Healthcentral Web Site: ) There are three types of diabetes, type 1, type 2 and gestational. There is also pre-diabetes which is not diabetes but if diagnosed with this it is time to think about making some lifestyle changes before you find yourself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Less people have type 1 diabetes. In type 1 people are dependent on insulin and have to take insulin injections or infusions daily, because the pancreas does not produces any on its own. This form of diabetes used to be called juvenile diabetes because it most often appears during childhood or adolescence; however, it can begin at any age. 90 to 95 percent of diabetics are type 2 diabetics. They do not depend on insulin and do not have to take injections or infusions. In type 2 the pancreas produces little insulin or the body does not resourcefully use the insulin that is available. The third and less common form of diabetes would be gestational...
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...How diabetes affects the gene pool. Specific purpose: To inform the audience on the effects the development of diabetes on heredity. Thesis: Diabetes is a common (sometimes preventable) disease that can affect your offspring for generations to come. (INTRODUCTION) 1. When we think about Diabetes all kinds of things may come to mind. For me I always think of Wilford Brimly in that commercial saying “I can get my oatmeal and diabetes prescriptions delivered at little or no cost to me!” Sounds funny, but is not… 2. There are nearly twenty-three million people in the United States who have been diagnosed with diabetes. a) Nearly six million people are unaware that they are suffering from the disease. Diabetes is a common illness that has no known cure. b) Diabetes can become fatal if left untreated therefore, is important to understand the risk factors, symptoms and causes of diabetes . 3. For nearly two thousand years diabetes has been recognized as a deadly disease. In the early seventeenth century a doctor would diagnosis a person with diabetes by tasting their urine. a) If the urine had a sweet taste, you were diagnosed with diabetes. Thank the Gods we’ve come so far, cause we’d have a significant lower numbers of Grads going on into medicine. b) Anyone can develop diabetes too. Poor diet and lack of exercise can contribute to many different health problems for you, but what about your gene pool...
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...Diabetes and Adolescence Christian Minaxi Grand Canyon University: NRS 433V February 15, 2013 Diabetes and Adolescence Article First Guo, Jia ; Whittemore, Robin ; He, Guo-Ping (2011).The relationship between diabetes self-management and metabolic control in youth with type 1 diabetes: an integrative review. http://ehis.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/ehost/detail?vid=8&sid=feb187e3-959a-463b-b132-6fdc0a76dfec%40sessionmgr12&hid=5&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY Abstract: guo j., whittemore r. & he g.-p. (2011) The relationship between diabetes self-management and metabolic control in youth with type 1 diabetes: an integrative review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 67(11), 2294-2310. Abstract Aims. The purpose of this integrative review was to describe the relationship between diabetes self-management and metabolic control in youth with type 1 diabetes and to explore factors which affect this relationship. Background. In the past 15 years, research has indicated that youth with type 1 diabetes face considerable self-management challenges and are at increased risk for poor metabolic control. To enhance the development of behavioral interventions for youth with type 1 diabetes, the relationship between diabetes self-management and metabolic control needs to be more clearly elucidated. Data Sources. Research studies that examined the relationship between diabetes self-management and metabolic control in youth with type 1 diabetes were...
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...another country, graduating high school, getting married, or having a child. I would like to walk you through one of my biggest life altering trial not only for myself but also for my whole family. At 3:45pm on January 18, 2012, I received a telephone call from my daughter Evangeline’s doctor on some blood tests she had taken that morning. As he was speaking to me I understood nothing. It was as though he was speaking French to me. I had so many questions for him. I said, "So she has type one diabetes?” He replied sympathetically, "yes.” Instantly I felt hot tears run down my checks. I thought, “How is this going to transform our lives?” We were informed we needed to head to the children’s hospital for Evangeline to be admitted. I can still smell the sterile hospital as we walked through the front entrance at 5:00pm. They were going to regulate her blood sugar levels and we were going to go through training to learn what we would need to know to take care of her and to live with diabetes. We were told that our stay at the hospital would be anywhere from two days to five days. They released her from the hospital the next day and so began our 'training'. We were educated in things from how to give insulin injections, carbohydrate counting, high blood sugar, low blood sugar and the list goes on. I felt as though I would never catch on. This is not a disease you can just hope goes away if you ignore it. You have to be proactive in your approach. I remember giving Evangeline...
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...Diabetes Mellitus is a common chronic disease of the endocrine system, specifically the pancreas, which beta cell destruction leads to insulin deficiency. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is an autoimmune disorder triggered by a viral infection in which beta cells are destroyed leading to absolute insulin deficiency and usually diagnosed in childhood. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a progressive disorder in which the pancreas makes less insulin overtime; most cells reduce the ability to respond to insulin, poor control of liver glucose output, decreased beta cell function, and eventually beta cell failure. The specific cause of type 2 diabetes is unknown; however, it usually occurs in adulthood, heredity, obesity and sedentary lifestyle may play a major role in its development. For both types of diabetes the main feature is chronic high blood glucose levels (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2006) This disease process requires lifelong behavioral and lifestyle changes and complications from this disease can cause many devastating health problems. This paper will include an overview of the incidence of diabetes in the United States, typical presenting signs and symptoms, the potential chronic affects of diabetes on the body, teaching with measurable outcomes and the psycho-social challenges a patient may face. Incidence of Diabetes in the United States According to studies performed by the National Institute of Health (NIH), 13% of adults 20 and older in the United States have diabetes. ...
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...Juvenile Diabetes Research MHA 610 Introduction to BioStatistics June 2012 Throughout a twelve week period from June through August the researcher found that (diet, weight, lack of exercise, environment and family history) have little to no impact on individuals suffering from juvenile diabetes. Juvenile Diabetes is also called Type 1 diabetes while its causes are not yet entirely understood; scientists believe that both genetic factors and environmental triggers are involved. “The word "diabetes" is borrowed from the Greek word meaning "a siphon." The 2nd-century A.D. Greek physician, Aretus the Cappadocian, named the condition "diabetes." He explained that patients with it had polyuria and "passed water like a siphon (www.medterms.com)." Type 1 diabetes is when no insulin is produced at all because the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas have been destroyed. Currently scientist and researchers do not know why these cells have been damaged the most likely cause is the body having an abnormal reaction to the cells. There is nothing that you can do to prevent Type 1 diabetes. This type of diabetes is always treated with insulin injections. Whereas type 2 can be controlled with oral medications, diet or exercise. When your child or someone you love and care about is diagnosed as Type 1 diabetic your whole world is turned upside down. I know my son was diagnosed right after his fifth birthday. There is no family...
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...Chapter 4 1. Explain what is meant by a chronic and acute health impairment. * Chronic Chronic is when the health impairment is long term. Chronic health impairments are defined to last more than a year after the first diagnosis. One example is diabetes. Pg. 83-84 * Acute Acute is when the health impairment is short term. Acute health impairments are ones that can be helped in a shorter time and not lasting over a life span. Pg. 83 2. Describe the impact of visible versus invisible related to health impairments. * When an impairment is visible there are more precautions and adaptions made. Pg. 84 * The people that interact with the person with a visible health impairment would know and not be surprised when something happens. Pg 84 * Although when health impairments are invisible some people may not be known as really ill and get the treatment and excess aid they need. Pg. 84 * They also may interact in activities that could be dangerous to them. Pg. 84 Asthma 3. Define Asthma and provide 4 facts about it. * Definition * Asthma is the most common pulmonary disease of childhood. Pg. 84 * 4 Facts * Asthma can begin in infancy or develop later in life. Pg. 84 * Asthma is a disease in result of many factors in that genetic predisposition interacts with circumstances in the environment. Pg. 85 * It develops beginning with allergen-induced inflammation followed by a consolidation phase characterized...
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...JOHANA WOULMS 1. Explain what endometriosis is, how it develops, and what specific drugs are used to treat it. What is endometriosis? Often painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus, the endometrium grows outside your uterus (endometrial implant). Endometriosis most commonly involves your ovaries, bowel or the tissue lining your pelvis. Rarely, endometrial tissue may spread beyond your pelvic region. How does endometriosis develop? In endometriosis, displaced endometrial tissue continues to act as it normally would — it thickens, breaks down and bleeds with each menstrual cycle. Because this displaced tissue has no way to exit your body, it becomes trapped. When endometriosis involves the ovaries, cysts called endometriomas may form. Surrounding tissue can become irritated, eventually developing scar tissue and adhesions — abnormal tissue that binds organs together. What specific drugs are used to treat endometriosis?. Dnazol, gosereli (Zoladex), leuprolide (Lupron Depot), nafarelin (Synarel), norethindrone (Aygestin) are hormone drugs used to suppress the menstrual cycle for several months, during which the endometrial implants shrink and fade 2. Name three types of drugs that may be prescribed during a woman’s pregnancy and the reasons for prescribing these drugs. * Drugs used to Treat Premature Labor: Tocolytics. These slow or stop labor contractions. Tocolytics may delay labor, often for just a few days. This delay may...
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...Diabetes, breast cancer, and tuberculosis are three important health concerns issues in the United States and in other parts of the world, but let’s be clear about this, there are several other important health issues affecting our people that have very significant importance. My criterion for selection is the United State, English language, and no specific age group. Diabetes as we know is when the body fails to produce enough insulin, which then causes sugar to build up in your blood. Diabetes affects over 25.8 million people, which is 8.3% of the U.S population, of that 18.8million people are diagnosed and 7.0 million undiagnosed. Among U.S. residents aged 65 years and older 10.9 million, or 26.9%, had diabetes in 2010. About 215,000 people younger than 20 years had diabetes (type 1 or type 2) in the United States in 2010. About 1.9 million people aged 20 years or older were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2010 in the United States. Type I diabetes was previously called insulin dependent mellitus or juvenile-onset diabetes. Type I diabetes develops when the body’s immune system destroys pancreatic beta cells, the cells that produce insulin that regulates blood glucose. To survive, people with this type must have insulin delivered by injection or pump. This type normally strikes children and young adults, but may occur at any age according and type I diabetes accounts for 5% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes. Risk factors can be may be autoimmune, genetic, or environmental...
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