Diabetes
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8.1 million people around the world have diabetes 27.8% of the 8.1 million are unaware that they have diabetes. In 1910 a scientist discovered the role the pancreas had and why diabetes was a deadly disease if not treated. The pancreas creates insulin for our body and transports around unlocking cells to let glucose. After many years there have been new discoveries on how to treat this disease.
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We have yet to discover a cure but most people can live a stable life with diabetes. If you have diabetes before every meal you have to check your blood pressure to make sure your body can keep functioning its important if not your organs will start to shut down. Its important for everyone who has diabetes to always be well rested and eat healthy. Now instead of your classic needle and insulin jar we have this pump that those the work for you. This pump isn't available to many but its very innovated in trying to solve this problem Type 2 diabetes is the most common type in the United States, type 1 is mostly hereditary. There is also a third type which this one on is only temporary. Its called Gestational diabetes which happens in pregnant women during the duration of the pregnancy. This happens when the mom had very high blood pressure. In the pregnancy when the baby is growing it pushes the pancreas so the pancreas can't create insulin
Type 1
This type of diabetes is usually called the juvenile diabetes this is because its usually discovered at a very young age. 5% of the people with diabetes have type 1. Type 1 diabetes is when your body attacks your own pancreas and destroy the cells that produce insulin. Those cells are called beta cells and when the cells are destroyed the whole process is thrown off.
Type 2
If you have type 2 diabetes its most likely your body is producing insulin it just isn't using it properly to get the glucose to your cells. So at the beginning stages your body will make extra insulin to try to adapt to the changes but when the disease progresses your body can't keep up with these changes. Type 2 isn't technically genetically but based on how you treat your body. Type 2 is most common in adults but since childhood obesity is increasing so is the rate of type 2 diabetes in younger patients. Type 2 develops slowly so its easy to miss the warning signs as it progresses.
SYMPTOMS
Risk factors
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- Lack of exercise
- Unhealthy eating
- Overweight
- Family History
- Unhealthy diet
- Increasing age
- High blood pressure
- Ethnicity
- Gestational diabetes
- High cholesterol
Complications
When you have diabetes your body function is a little slower than usual. The longer you have diabetes the less controlled your blood pressure is. Theses Complications may lead to the these long term affects
- Cardiovascular disease
- Nerve damage
- Kidney damage
- Eye damage
- Foot damage
- Skin conditions
- Hearing impalement
- Alzheimer's