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Diabetes Statistics
Diabetes Statistics General diabetes statistics Diabetes affects an estimated 25.8 million people in the U.S. (90 to 95 percent have type 2 diabetes)--18.8 million have been diagnosed, but 7 million are unaware they have the disease. According to the American Diabetes Association and the CDC, those affected include: 12.6 million U.S. women (10.8 percent of all women age 20 or older) 13 million U.S. men (11.8 percent of all men age 20 or older) 215,000 people younger than age 20 10.9 million adults older...
Anatomy of the Endocrine System
Anatomy of the Endocrine System The endocrine system is a complex network of glands and organs. It uses hormones to control and coordinate your body's internal balance or homeostasis, its energy level, reproduction, growth and development, and response to injury, stress, and environmental factors. The following are integral parts of the endocrine system: Click Image to Enlarge Hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is located in the brain, near the optic chiasm. It secretes hormones that stimulate or suppress t...
What Is Diabetes?
What Is Diabetes? Diabetes refers to a group of chronic diseases that involve problems in the regulation of blood sugar. The two most common types of diabetes are, type 1 and type 2. Both forms result from the body's inability to either produce or respond adequately to insulin. (A third type, gestational diabetes, occurs only during pregnancy and may lead to type 2 diabetes.) Insulin is the hormone that controls the movement of glucose from the blood into cells. Insulin is produced by the pancreas. Gluc...
Diagnosing Diabetes
Diagnosing Diabetes Protocol for diagnosing diabetes According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: People over age 45 should be tested for prediabetes or diabetes. If the first blood glucose test is normal, they should be re-tested every three years. People under age 45 should consider getting tested for prediabetes or diabetes if they have a body mass index (BMI) of greater than or equal to 25 kgm/m2 and have one or more of the following risk factors: Having a first...
Facts About Diabetes
Facts About Diabetes What is diabetes? Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by a failure to secrete enough insulin, or, in some cases, the cells do not respond appropriately to the insulin that is produced. Because insulin is needed by the body to convert glucose into energy, these failures result in abnormally high levels of glucose accumulating in the blood. Diabetes may also be a result of other conditions such as genetic syndromes, chemicals, drugs, malnutrition, infections, viruses, or ot...
Answers to Your Diabetes Questions
Answers to Your Diabetes Questions What is diabetes? It's not an illness you can catch like a cold or cure like an infection. It's a condition in which your body can't maintain the right level of blood sugar, or glucose -- the source of energy that powers muscles, organs and other body systems. There are three types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body is unable to produce insulin. This illness is believed to be a type of autoimmune disease. A person with this type of diabetes has certain g...
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