Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Summary

Do you ever wonder where Diabetes comes from or where it originated from? Well that’s exactly what we’re going to discussing today.

Type 1 diabetes is difficult to live with, which can cause emotional ramifications to be heightened. Younger children may not understand why blood samples and insulin injections are essential to their well being. In turn, they may become scared, angry, and uncooperative. Teens on the other hand may feel different from everyone else and want to live a more carefree lifestyle than their diabetes allows them to have. Even while being dedicated to their treatment routine, teens can get very frustrated and even depressed, especially when going through puberty since their diabetes gets harder to control. Often people who have just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes ask themselves,

During 2008-2009, 18,436 people younger than twenty years of age were diagnosed with type one diabetes. Because of diabetes, 18,436 people had to completely change their way of life for a disease that is currently incurable. Out of the U.S population, 9.3%, or 29.1 million people, currently live with diabetes. Each year, 40,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in the U.S. Between 2001 and 2009, the number of cases of type one diabetes in people younger than twenty years of age increased by 21%. The annual healthcare costs associated with type one diabetes totals $14 billion. Diabetes is a life-altering disease whose affects can be seen at all stages of life. If it is not well managed, diabetes can result in blindness, nerve damage, loss of limbs, cardiovascular problems, and death.

People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes are also need insulin to treat diabetes.

People living with type 1 diabetes can have a difficult time self-management, especially because majority of the people with type 1 diabetes are young. In the review paper written by Deborah Wiebe, Vicki Helgeson, and Cynthia Berg (2016), they talk about people with type-1 and type 2 diabetes and how they self-manage having the disease and how they live their life. They go into depth on the social context on living with diabetes and living a long life span. They highlighted how young children and adolescent are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and how parents with children that has type 1 diabetes have to teach their children how to control their blood pressure and all other things. It can take a stress on the parent because the child can be diagnosed at an early age when they do not know how to do complex task.

If diabetes is left untreated it can lead to serious diseases such as heart disease, blindness, kidney disease, nerve damage, foot problems, skin complications, and oral problems and eventually death. Since type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease it means that the bodily functions are attacked and cannot fight off what is happening to the body. The etiology of diabetes is only somewhat understood because the history of a person may be unknown, or the person could either be over producing insulin. A person needs to have many tests done to see where all of the factors are coming from. Type 2 is more complicated because every patient is different, because some may have low levels of insulin, some may have normal levels but the body does not respond well to it. Overall, genetics plays a huge role, along with ethnicity, age, and obesity and gender.

The Diabetes Treatment written by Sheriff Sheik Abdulazeez discusses the major health concern of diabetes. This is a deadly disease; it accounts for 5% of deaths around the world annually. They are two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the immune complex mediated attack on insulin produced by B cells in the pancreas, and type 2 diabetes arises due to inability of insulin to regulate glucose in the blood. The treatment previously used for diabetes was inadequate because it did not treat the causes of the disease. With the stem cells, scientists have greater chances of finding a better solution to treat the disease. This can be accomplished by using adult, Pancreatic, and embryonic stem cells to produce insulin secreting cells.

Type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed at any age, though children, teens, or young adults are more susceptible. Specifically type 1 diabetes is generally found in the youth, which is why the disease was previously named ‘juvenile diabetes’. A lot of symptoms come with the condition, though it may be harder to detect in younger children. Toddlers, babies, or infants are more difficult to diagnose, due to their lack of ability to vocalize if something isn’t feeling right. Increased thirst and urination is a very common sign found in toddlers and other young children. “The reason this (increased thirst) happens is the rising of blood-sugar levels trigger a reaction in the body that pulls fluid from tissues. This will leave your son or daughter constantly—and

Diabetes Mellitus is a group of diseases accumulating together, which will then affect how the body uses blood sugar (glucose). Glucose is the body’s energy mechanism to feed the cells and give strength to muscles and tissues. Glucose comes from the things you eat, mostly from the foods or drinks that include large amounts of sugar. “Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the US. It is estimated that 16.7 million US adults (about 7% of the total adult US population) have diagnosed diabetes. About 1 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed annually.” (Pittas, 2008) The main organ that is affected is the pancreas. With this disease, the levels of glucose are too low or too high, then insulin can be produced in the body. Insulin regulates

According to American Diabetes Association, “diabetes is one of the most serious health problems that the African American community faces today. Compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes.” With that being said I feel that diabetes is something that should be addressed. I myself have a long family history of diabetes, making myself at risk of one day having it.

Type two diabetes is associated with foot complications, eye disease, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, heart disease, hearing impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (know of a link not know why though) (source 9). Foot complications is due to the high blood pressure caused by type two diabetes which furthermore leads to nerve damage and poor circulation in the lower limbs. Which may lead to foot ulcers and infection and eventually to amputation. Foot complications occur in 13% of people with diagnosed type two diabetes and 7% of people with undiagnosed type two diabetes. Eye disease is also caused by the by high blood pressure. This disease is when the high blood pressure affects the blood vessels at the back of the eye, this is found in around 21.9% of people with type two diabetes. Cardiovascular disease is once again caused by high blood pressure. The insulin is unable to deal with the high blood pressure so fats and sugar clog up the artery walls which can lead to angina, coronary heart disease or a stroke. 45% of people with diagnosed and undiagnosed type two diabetes have experienced a CVD (cardiovascular disease) event. CDV is the leading cause of death with people with type two diabetes (source

In my opinion, the best treatment is to take care of one’s self, eating healthy and exercising daily. The only issue is that many people are so busy in their lives to consider exercise and when they do have the time, they’re either very tired from a long day or just want to relax. Out of all the treatments, I think SQF plus Insulin as well as yoga was the best in my eyes for treating Type 2 diabetes. I would take into consideration the new trends of insulin delivery but for now its best if they do more research and hope for a better solution, especially when devices deliver inaccurate dosages. This project was a wake-up call for me as my relatives and family always talks of diabetes. I was curious to know more about it, especially why it was in two categories, Type 1 and Type 2. Gathering information was a bit time consuming because some of the articles did not interest me. I did find some articles, but they were in a different language or I could not obtain the free text version to read offline. My thoughts are that if it affects almost 80% of the population, people need to be aware of the disease and know to take precaution with their meals and to have time to exercise at least 30 minutes each

Diabetes is a very familiar noncommunicable disease in the United States. Noncommunicable diseases are diseases that cannot be passed from person to person or contracted from the environment (for example, vectors). I chose to write about diabetes because I know people that have diabetes. In fact, diabetes is so fast growing and prevalent today that chances are you know someone with diabetes.

Diabetes is a heterogeneous group of metabolic diseases characterised by high levels of blood glucose (hyperglycaemia) due to defects in the β cell function in the pancreas which is impacting the insulin secretion or insulin action, resulting in the inability to self-regulate the levels of blood glucose in the body (Stumvoll et al.,2005). Short term symptoms of hyperglycaemia include: polyuria , polydipsia, blurred vision, however the chronic effects of hyperglycaemia are associated with long term organ dysfunction and damage, especially the blood vessels, retina in the eye, kidneys and heart (Uazman et al., 2014). Diabetes has become a world-wide concern due to its high prevalence in the world (in 2015, 415 million of people were estimated

Diabetes can affect almost every organ system in the human body. Naturally, the body requires energy to function normally, meaning it needs the energy from glucose that insulin helps regulates, not having enough insulin or having too much insulin can cause unwanted effects concerning the