Type 2 Diabetes Essay

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Living with the serious health problems and taking care of on own need a lot of understanding and knowledge about the disease process. Diabetic is one of them and it has been one of the major health concern in health profession. There have been so many researches done on the type 1 and type 2 diabetes and more still in ongoing process. This article represents the detail explanation of what is diabetes, how many types are, what are the high and low values range and what are the diseases a person can get from them. It also explains that how our other body parts get infected when our sugar level goes high and low. Author states, Diabetes is a serious and costly health problem in the United States. There are an estimated 24 million cases in the United States, representing an increase of 3 …show more content…

In the diabetic there is three body organs are involved which are the liver, the skeletal muscles and the pancreas. The major diabetes seen in the patients are type1 and type 2. Some patient refer as prediabetes, which means when blood glucose is not high enough where they can diagnosed as type 2 diabetics, so they consider as prediabetes. According to the articles, a prediabetes sugar value refers as follows: Fasting Plasma glucose: 100-125mg/dL, 2 hour postprandial glucose tolerance test: 140-199 mg/dL and AIC: 5.7% - 6.4%. Type 1Diabetes, also known as “juvenile-onset” diabetes; it’s happen when person pancreas cannot produce any insulin on its own. This type of the diabetes often seen in the people older than 30 years old or older than 55. Other type of diabetes is Type 2 diabetes, which is more often seen in the all age of the patient. In type 2 diabetes body produce its own insulin, but it’s not utilize very good by the body