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A 6 page description of the various types of diabetes mellitus, the causes, effects, and treatment. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in the US alone suffered from diabetes in 2005.1 As though that werent concerning enough, almost one-third of the diabetics in the US today have not been diagnosed as
diabetics.2 Diabetes is an extremely serious condition and one with potentially astronomical consequences. Diabetes is characterized not just by physical impacts but also by mental, psychological and social
impacts. Given the severity of diabetic complications, failure to adequately treat diabetes could result in severe health impacts or even death. Indeed, the American Diabetes Association lists diabetes
as the fifth deadliest disease in the US3. With treatment, however, even the most serious forms of diabetes can often be kept in check. Diabetes mellitus is a
broad epidemiological classification of a condition characterized by either the metabolic inability to produce insulin or the metabolic resistance to insulin. This classification encompasses four distinct epidemiological types of
diabetes. These are: 1. type 1 diabetes, 2. type 2 diabetes, 3. gestational diabetes, and 4. other types of diabetes resulting from genetic beta-cell defects in either
function or insulin action, or pancreatic disease, or drugs or chemicals.4 Each of these subcategories of diabetes mellitus has distinct physiological impacts and treatments.
Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can result in either hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia, extremely low or extremely high levels of
blood glucose. Hypoglycemia is technically defined as a blood sugar level of 70 mg/dl.5 Hyperglycemia, in contrast, results with a blood sugar level of 200 mg/dl.6 Hyperglycemia
is recurrent among diabetics and is associated with metabolic syndrome.7 Type I Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is known by a variety of names.
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