are not receiving enough exercise daily and not eating the right kinds of foods. The combination of sedentary lifestyle’s and fast-food diets have created a whole generation of children faced with serious adult health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, and high cholesterol. In this paper the subject to describe child obesity and its general impact that changing demographics may have on the health care market. Also the paper will tackle many questions involving this issue such as why and how will
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Glastonbury, Connecticut 4 Internal Medicine Primary Care LLP, Newington, Connecticut 5 Windham Medical Group, Willimantic, Connecticut 6 Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut Keywords Behavioral health; chronic illness; coaching; diabetes. Correspondence Robin Whittemore, PhD, APRN, Yale School of Nursing, 100 Church Street South, New Haven, CT 06536-0740. E-mail: robin.whittemore@yale.edu Received: May 2009; accepted: July 2009 doi: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2010.00562.x Funding: The study
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Diabetes is a good choice of a disease to follow as it is becoming more and more wide spread. It is striking children at younger ages than it was years ago. These days research has found ways of helping to keep those sugar levels down to a level that is not as harmful to the health of the person who has diabetes. I am one of those who have been struck with this disease, I was diagnosed as Gestational and it never went away. Someday I would like to see a cure for this as well as more educational teachings
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factors identified from both parental side. There is a trend of diabetes, which means an increased sugar level in the blood in both sides of my family. My maternal grandmother is on treatment for diabetis at the age of 70.My mother had increased sugar level during her pregnancy which is a predisposing factor to develop diabetes in future.This trend can be carried through genes to myself and my sister. Both my father and his sister have diabetes which is also a trend that could be carried via genes .My
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Primary Medical Diagnosis: Diabetes mellitus 2. Relevant Pathophysiology: Type-2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by an abnormality in carbohydrate and fat metabolism. The cause of type-2 diabetes are multifactorial and include both genetic and environmental elements that affect beta cell function and tissue (muscle, liver, adipose tissue, pancreas) insulin sensitivity. A number of factors have been suggested as possibly linking insulin resistance and beta cell dysfunction
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Literature Review in Research: An Annotated Bibliography Anthumani Ramamoorthy HCS465 29/10/2012 Elizabeth McNutt Rohana, A.J. and Aiba, N. (2012) ‘Childhood obesity in Japan: a growing public health threat’, Int. Medical Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.146–149. This article is about growing trend of childhood obesity in Japan. The study details the reason, causes and effects of obesity. Obese children in Japan has been noticed with existence of other co-morbidities
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betrayed. She has also had to cope with her youngest child being diagnosed with diabetes. Throughout it all, she has shown a brave face, never cracking always smiling, and always willing to help anyone that was down. Instead of running into a corner and hiding, she has stood strong piecing together her life and making a good example of a strong woman for her boys. She has also championed the cause of juvenile diabetes making whomever will listen well aware of this sometime hidden or misunderstood
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although other environmental factors come into play as well. If a child has poor eating habits, this may result in little or no energy for exercise, and emotional complications such as depression and anger, as well as medical conditions such as diabetes, and many others. It is inevitable that childhood obesity will have some health effects that can become very serious with time. A common condition found in morbidly obese children is metabolic syndrome which is many conditions that may lead to
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The article I chose was the Differences in outcome between Maori and Caucasian patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty for osteoarthritis. The purpose of this comparison was to show how different ethnic backgrounds had an affect on the outcome of those who underwent total hip or total knee arthroplasties. Total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty are effective treatments for advanced osteoarthritis. The comparison was between 45 men and 45 women between the ages of 43 to 87.
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