The Research Process HCS/465 November 2, 2012 The Research Process In the research process, many questions must be answered to provide validity in the article being read. Evaluating quantitative research and qualitative research is the beginning of the process. Supporting evidence is a way to validate the creditability of the content read. Three types of literature typically reviewed are theoretical literature, empirical literature, and the use of primary and secondary
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This is something that you are born with and is usually diagnosed when you are a child or young adult. Only 5% of people with this diabetes have this type. Type 2 diabetes is when the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin. Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes as it affects millions of Americans. 2. What are the major complications associates with diabetes? Diabetes has a lot of complications and can be classified in micro vascular and macro vascular diseases
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approximately 250 million people affected by type 2 diabetes mellitus worldwide (1). Although the primary factors causing this disease are unknown, it is clear that insulin resistance plays a major role in its development. Evidence for this comes from (a) the presence of insulin resistance 10–20 years before the onset of the disease (2, 3); (b) cross-sectional studies demonstrating that insulin resistance is a consistent finding in patients with type 2 diabetes (3–6); and (c) prospective studies demonstrating
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Culture and Disease HCS/245 August 6, 2012 Rebecca Johnson RN, MSN, FNP, BC Culture and Disease I chose diabetes mellitus for my culture and disease paper because it is a disease that runs in my family, and there are so many people in this society living with diabetes and does not know they have it or just do not want to take this disease very seriously. Diabetes mellitus is a disease, which affects the glucose level in the blood, whether it is too high or too low, can cause harm
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THE AGE OF GNUMERIC VOIM 220 October 6, 2014 Instructor L. Hughes Although the average person is accustomed to the world of Excel and Access, there are other database programs and spread sheets out there; other spreadsheets that will prove to be just as effective and low in cost as opposed to Excel and Access. In our digital world full of digital citizens there has been an epilogue of database programs and spreadsheets that have cornered the web search engines of all computers. One of those
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relationship an infant will encounter. The Need Breastfeeding is highly nutritional, protects from various infectious diseases, decreases rates of sudden infant death syndrome, reduction in insulin dependent (type 1) and non-insulin-dependent (type 2 diabetes mellitus), lymphoma, leukemia, and Hodgkin disease, overweight, and obesity. Contraindications According to the Center Disease Control and Prevention breastfeeding is not advisable if one or more of the following conditions are true: The
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Approximately 215,000 people under the age of 20 years old have been diagnosed with diabetes, whether it be type 1 or type 2. Diabetes is a chronic (lifelong) disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. Between the years of 2002 and 2005, 15,600 children and adolescents were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes , and 3,600 children and adolescents were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Snack machines are filled with foods that are high in sugar and could be potentially fatal to a child or adolescent
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pushing policymakers to recognize and take action with regard to focusing on the prevention of type 2 diabetes to slow down these costly trends. Clinical Trial The Diabetes Prevention Program (DDP) is a landmark National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases clinical trial which provided the best evidence indicating individuals at high risk for type 2 diabetes can prevent or delay the onset of the disease. The DDP was a major randomized trial that had
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Pharmatherapeutics Assignment Personal and Medical history Mr. JP is an 86 year old Caucasian male who leaves with his wife in an assistance leaving home and receives help from a home health aide, who usually is there every morning to assist him and his wife with all their needs. Mr. JP started experiencing severe pain around his shoulder although he usually experience pains in his joints because of arthritis, after the fourth day his pain escalated to the point where he could not hold it any
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This is an incredibly exciting time in diabetes research. In past, we only had one promising approach to find a cure for patients with type 1 diabetes. Now we have several possibilities related to a cure and even preventions, both for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We are now focusing on ways to understand this immune attack to find safe ways to block it. There are several ongoing studies using our knowledge of immunology to try to prevent type 1 diabetes. This research might contain a lead to cure not
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