Analysis and Description of Diabetes

population, has diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is now being recognized as a worldwide epidemic. The disease affects 9.3% of all Americans and 12.3% of those aged 20 years or older. Outstandingly, an estimated 8.1 million Americans with diabetes are undiagnosed. Worldwide, more than 220 million people have diabetes (WHO, 2011). Undiagnosed type 2 diabetes is thought to be common around the world; it is estimated that half of the cases remain undiagnosed (Burant & Young, 2012).

Insulin. Needles. Syringes. Test strips. Glucose. Ketones. Insulin Pump. Endocrinologist. These are all things that go hand in hand with diabetes. Everyone who has diabetes goes through different events or problems each and every day. However, there is more than just one type of diabetes that corresponds with these things; there are two distinct types. It is unsure how Diabetes was discovered but now there are much simpler ways to detect if someone is diabetic. As time has gone on, it is greatly apparent that the technology and all that scientists know about diabetes has changed.

For the year 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that, 29.1 million people in the united states had diabetes, and of those 21.0 million people were diagnosed and 8.1 million people were undiagnosed (2014). The number of people that have the disease can be used to illustrate the major impact the disease has on society. The disease can affect an individual directly through personal diagnosis. When family member is diagnosed with type II diabetes, it can indirectly affect their close relatives by the increased risk that they may one day be diagnosed with the disease because of genetics. The fact that 8.1 million people were undiagnosed in 2012 should be very concerning for both healthcare providers and society (CDC, 2014). The proper management and compliance is very important with type II diabetes and cannot be initiated until a diagnosis is made. When the disease is uncontrolled other complications can occur. This creates a negative effect on society due to the deficit that exist. Whether the actual impact the disease has on society is positive or negative can be related to whether the disease is properly diagnosed and managed accordingly. Although type II diabetes is a part of society working to try to prevent the disease and timely diagnose the disease is a positive impact diabetes has on society. Increase education about the signs and symptoms of the disease and screenings could aid in the early diagnosis of the disease. Earlier diagnosis can aid in better prognosis of the

Diabetes is a disease that can lead to heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, nerve damage, or blindness (Turkoski, 2006). It not only costs many individuals their lives, but it also causes untold emotional and physical problems for people with diabetes and their families. In addition, the cost of care associated with diabetes and the associated complications exceeds $132 billion annually.

Diabetes mellitus is a medical condition that either develops because of a virus or develops over time as a result to poor diet and exercise. If left uncontrolled it may lead to serious complications such as stroke, vision loss, amputation, or even death. Type II Diabetes is a preventable disease that usually occurs when a patient has been a pre-diabetic for some time. Most people with Type 2 are overweight or obese which can lead to insulin resistance. “In the United States, 25.6 million or 11.3% of adults aged 20 years and older had diabetes in 2010. Non-Hispanic Blacks had the highest prevalence at 12.6% compared with non- Hispanic Whites at 7.1%” (Gaskin, D. J. et all, 2014). With the rising cost of healthcare there are millions of Americans

Diabetes kills more Americans each year than Breast Cancer and AIDS. Diabetes is a widespread disease affecting people of all age, race, size and gender. Most people think that it comes from what you eat and drink but, its actually hereditary.

Diabetes is a disease that involves the hormone insulin. Although not every individual with type 2 diabetes is overweight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that nearly 95 percent of diabetes cases in the U.S. are due to obesity and physical inactivity.

Diabetes is common and long-term. In the U.S., more than 29 million people suffer from this disease. Of these cases, 90-95% suffer from type 2 diabetes that usually occurs after age 40. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one in four or 8 million people don’t know they have diabetes. In its early stages, type 2 diabetes symptoms develop slowly. Patients are unaware they have serious health problems.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a condition in the body that is related to a faulty metabolism. It means that the body’s metabolism is not functioning properly, which leads to adverse effects in the health. The food we ingest, gets broken down into blood sugar (glucose), which is what fuels our body in the form of energy. This converted glucose needs to enter our cells so that it can be used for energy and growth. And in order for the glucose to enter our cells, there needs to be insulin present, which the beta cells of the pancreas is responsible for producing. This hormone is responsible for maintaining glucose level in the blood. It allows the body cells to use glucose as a main

Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is primarily a disease of the young given its peak incidence age of 10-12 years for girls and 12-14 years for boys. This disease can actually occur at any age, but most patients are diagnosed before the age of 20 years. Type1diabetes refers to cell-mediated autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta islet cells, which leads to insulin deficiency. The immune system mistakenly sees the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas as foreign and destroys them. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches, and other foods into energy needed for daily life. Insulin serves as “key” to open your cells, to allow sugar to enter and with out insulin, the sugar stays and builds up in the blood resulting in the body’s cells to starve from lack of glucose.

Type 2 diabetes is a very well known disease throughout the US. There are about 27 million people in the US with the disease and 86 million others have prediabetes which means their blood glucose is not right but also not high enough to be diabetes yet. 208,000 people under the age of twenty have been diagnosed with either Type 1 or 2 Diabetes.

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, there are 15,600 new cases of Type I Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) each year (U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). Boys and girls are at relatively equal risks for developing T1DM up until fourteen years old, with risks peaking around puberty. Following puberty, incidences tend to be higher in white males than women (Soltesz, Patterson, & Dahlquist, 2007). When looking globally by region at incidences, they tend to be higher in European countries, such as Finland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. This could be related to the genetic susceptibility people in these areas carry around, such as a certain gene associated with the autoimmune response of T1DM

Nearly everyone knows somebody who has diabetes. An estimated 16 million people in the United States have diabetes and more than one third are not aware that they have the disease. Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death by disease in the United States (1). Education about diabetes is necessary to understanding the disease progression and to prevent its complications. A diagnosis with diabetes may cause changes in people’s lives. One cannot just look at a diabetic and understand the things that they go through on a daily basis.

Type 2 diabetes, the body doesn’t know how to use the very little insulin the pancreas produces if it produces any at all. While there is a rare possibility to have Type 1 diabetes but, that it is a genetic disease where the pancreas produces little to no insulin causing the person to have to manually inject insulin. Since Type 2 diabetes is more of a controllable disease and know to be a “lifestyle” disease a person does not have to be on medication their whole life but they do have to take drugs orally that affect the glucose levels. Type 2 diabetes usually accompanies obesity and results from insulin resistance coupled with insufficient insulin secretion. When we ate

After thorough research into my family history I’ve realized that my family has a history of developing diabetes. Also known as Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases that develop in the human body because of too much sugar in the blood system. There are different types of diabetes such as type one, type two, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes. Type-one diabetes is a chronic condition, in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Type-two diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar. Prediabetes is a condition when your blood sugar is high, but not high enough to be type-two diabetes. The final type of diabetes is Gestational diabetes which is a form of high blood sugar affecting only pregnant women. The human body needs an adequate amount of insulin production, so when your blood cells are deprived of insulin you develop diabetes. Diabetes affects over 382,000,000 people worldwide, so in perspective that’s ever one in eleven Americans has some form of diabetes. According to the center for disease control statistics,” out of the twenty-nine million people that have diabetes in the U.S, only twenty-one million have been diagnosed”. Which means about a quarter of Americans don’t even know they have diabetes yet. My family’s medical history consists of a variety of diseases such as diabetes, prostate cancer and AIDS.