Diabetes-Human Disease
Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease that occurs because blood sugar levels in the body are higher or lower than normal levels. According to the International Diabetes Foundation, "Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide," and the Center for Disease Control states that, "roughly 21 million Americans have the disease" (Economist 2007). Diabetes is a chronic disease with may causes, signs, and symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and outcomes.
Diabetes is a chronic life-long disease. Diabetes has many different causes that involve many different systems and organs throughout the body. There are two main types and some less common types of diabetes. Although the signs and symptoms are similar, the causes are not.
Type I is called Juvenile-onset diabetes or insulin dependent which is also known as genetic disease. With type I diabetes there is little or no insulin transported from the pancreas to the liver because there are little to no insulin producing beta cells. It is......
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