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Diabetes Informative Essay

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Diabetes, a lifelong disease that has been in my family for generations. Diabetes is a chronic disease that is sometimes even fatal. Diabetes is when you have high blood sugar. The reason why I wanted to talk about this non-communicable disease is because I wanted to inform people the symptoms, what causes it, and ways to help keep away from it or cope with it. Most of my aunts and uncles have diabetes most of them have type 1 but my aunt angel has type 2. The full name of diabetes is “Diabetes Mellitus” but diabetes is for short. Also I have a high risk of getting diabetes too. It is hereditary and your genetics links to it.

Diabetes is when you have high blood sugar as stated in the previous paragraph. Also according to medicalnewstoday.com a hormone called insulin is lacking where it is required at or the patient’s body doesn’t take in the insulin the right way, sometimes even both. Also there are 2 types of diabetes. Diabetes is a very serious disease and there are many symptoms to look out for. This disease is very unique it has a lot to do with sugar and being healthy and not eating a lot of bad things or eating a lot of good things because eating too much of a good thing is bad. Also from …show more content…

A lot of hospitals have a variety of test and treatments to perform and every hospital has a broader and wider selection. All hospitals will put the person through therapy to see if there is any progression in the patient and also for any help or questions. Also doctors treat the patient by issuing a certain medication to help prevent worsening and make the disease manageable and test to see if it makes it better. The doctors will treat you with different dosages of insulin some of the names are insulin regular, insulin glulisine, insulin aspart, insulin lispro, and many

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