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Sitagliptin and Type 2 Diabetes

Millions of Americans and people the world over suffer from diabetes. Fortunately, there has been considerable research invested ...

Research and Diabetes

in young people, and type two diabetes, which generally occurs as the result of lifestyle choices such as obesity or a lack of exe...

Diabetes and African Americans/Epidemiology

interest and relevant population Diabetes mellitus is an umbrella term for a category of chronic metabolic conditions, which are ...

Behavior Influences on Health

it may not be recognised in all cases. The common symptoms of stress includes, tiredness and fatigue, weight changes for no obviou...

The Problems Faced By Homeless Diabetics

ABSTRACT Diabetes is a difficult disease to control but is particularly problematic for the homeless. This literature review exa...

Diabetes Type 2

two primary types of diabetes include Type 1 and Type 2, which are associated juvenile and adult diabetes, respectively. Diabetes...

Epidemiology of Childhood Diabetes

their capacity to teach their children the critical need for wholesome and nutrient-rich foods as well as regular physical activit...

Cause And Prevention Of Heart Attacks

can create the unhealthy form of cholesterol without eating the bad foods associated with it, inasmuch as some systems automatical...

Impact of Diabetes Mellitus

due to the fact that these medications lack the flexibility to provide fast hyperglycemic control (Seelandt, 2007). A diagnosis ...

The Need for Cultural Competency Care

African-American culture tends to eat more fat than is recommended. Socioeconomic status as well as education play a role in meal ...

Obesity and Health

on around the stomach) (Nazario, 2009). Obesity is linked to heart disease and stroke because it often causes high blood pressure...

Diabetes and the Americans with Disabilities Act

take applicants with chronic diseases because health maintenance would be too taxing in the throes of war. Similarly, one does not...

Diabetes Education Lesson Plan

reason, who are newly diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The primary purpose will be to impress upon these patients the critical ne...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Life Effects of Insulin

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

Facts About Nutrition and Diabetes

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

Type I Diabetes' Biochemistry

islet cells located in the pancreas (2005). Other endocrine autoimmunities are associated with this type, such as Addison disease ...

Population Impact of Diabetes

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 ...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

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

Older Adults and Diabetes

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...

Community Nursing/Jackson Heights, NY

(CNY, 2007). Talk to an informant; problems and strengths : Naturally this writer/tutor was not in a position to find an inform...

Article Critique/Gestational Diabetes

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

Diabetes in America

the pancreas do not produce enough insulin in order to meet the bodys needs, and this is in part attributable to the acquired decr...

Living with Multiple Health Needs; Care Assessment

over between the social and the medical areas, the care plan needs to look at each and determine the way in which these will be de...

Patients with Diabetes and Diet

other organs, such as the heart, kidneys and eyes (Visalli, 1996). Although individuals with Type I diabetes must take insulin, d...

Polk County, Florida Diabetes Prevention Program Proposal

50.9% of the population ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). The population is 79.6 white ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). It seem...

Type 2 Diabetes

Kolatkar, 2005). For instance, a lack of exercise and obesity are believed to contribute to diabetes (American Diabetes Associatio...