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environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

is by far the most common form of the disease. In addition, it is common for those adults who develop the disease later in life t...

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

CFAM. Structural Assessment Internal Structure The family as it exists today came into being in May 2004 when Joe and Jeann...

2001). Type 1 DM is often referred to as childhood diabetes, because the onset occurs in people under the age of 30 years of age ...

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

detail. It states that "sucrose and sucrose-containing foods" must be substituted on a gram-for-gram basis with other carbohydrate...

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

may have produced the desired results, the issue of promoting healing in extremities is one that is difficult at best (Wound Care ...

In seven pages this paper discusses juvenile diabetes in a consideration of the role of nursing intervention in monitoring and tre...

being-in-the-world" (Evans and OBrien, 2005, p. 68). Each woman who received an invitation letter and showed interesting in partic...

or where the body produces insulin, but for some reason the insulin does not do as it was intended, meaning the body can not metab...

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

In seven pages this research paper considers a model diabetes treatment program that would be situated in a hypothetical metropoli...

ESTIMATED TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE IN THE US ALONE SUFFERED FROM DIABETES IN 2005 (DESHPANDE, HARRIS-HAYES, AND SCHOOTMAN, 2005). AS...