Diabetes Awareness
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About Diabetes
MIMS 5203 - Diabetes Awareness: Diabetes is basically an enduring illness that affects the body causing it to not respond to the energy in food consumed by an individual. Blood glucose sugar meter known as a BSGM is an instrument that diabetics normally use to obtain their glucose levels Monitoring Glucose levels allows you to understand the benefits the combination of diet and exercise affects blood sugar levels; it can help you see how health conditions and or stress affects blood sugar levels; it allows observations on the effect of diabetes medications towards blood sugar levels measuring and increase or decrease in glucose levels. Illnesses associate to Diabetes includes: Heart Disease, Stroke, Hypertension, Blindness, eye problems, Kidney Disease, Nervous System Disease, complications in pregnancy and even amputations.
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What is Diabetes? What kind of diabetes do I have? How did I get?Diabetes is a disorder that occurs when the body either does not produce insulin or cannot use insulin effectively to convert the foods you eat into energy for your cells. This leads to high amounts of sugar in the blood, since it is not able to get into the cells of the body. If you have little or no insulin, this is known as type 1 diabetes. Most people with diabetes have type 2. This occurs when the pancreas does produces some insulin, but the cells do not responds to it. The pancreas has to make more and more insulin to do the work, and eventually, the pancreas becomes exhausted. This is called insulin resistance. Although some insulin is being produced, it is not enough to keep blood sugar levels normal. This is type 2 diabetes.Insulin is a hormone that is produced in pancreas. Before you had diabetes, when you ate food, your body made natural hormones that regulated the amount of insulin needed to move the glucose from your blood into your cells where it is used for energy. Diabetes results from a disruption of this natural process.
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Risk FactorsWho is at risk for developing diabetes?There are some risk factors that increase someones chances of developing diabetes, including a family history of diabetes, being overweight and being inactive. Certain ethnic groups, such as African American, American Indians, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, are more likely to get diabetes, as are women who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy. However, diabetes can happen to anyone at any age and from any background. More than 23 million people in the United States have diabetes.
