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A 15 page paper discussing the effects of stress on diabetes. Stress has been linked to a variety of diseases for many years. It has been relatively recently, however, that it has been linked to diabetes in terms of having direct effect on diabetics’ blood glucose levels and their ability to manage fluctuations. The purpose here is to provide an overview of the disease and stress, and provide literature support of how stress and diabetes interact. While the full effect of stress on diabetes is not totally clear, it is extremely clear that stress negatively affects progress of the disease and individuals’ ability to control their conditions. While it is reasonable to assume that stress also may affect onset of the disease in those genetically predisposed to it, that possibility has not yet been proven. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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linked to a variety of diseases for many years. It has been relatively recently, however, that it has been linked to diabetes in terms of having direct effect on
diabetics blood glucose levels and their ability to manage fluctuations. The purpose here is to provide an overview of the disease and stress, and provide literature support of how
stress and diabetes interact. Diabetes Today As much as 5 percent of the population may be affected by diabetes, although in the late
1980s a survey by the Centers for Disease Control found "The prevalence of self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years"
(Current Trends Regional Variation, 1990) and incidence of new cases has grown in great proportion since that time. Diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate metabolism in which the sufferer
of the disease is unable to absorb glucose from the blood. While those whose diabetes is controlled do well overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as
much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disease, gangrene and heart disease. The cause of diabetes was unknown until Oscar Minkowski
and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to feed the dog either
ground up pancreas or extracts of pancreas were unsuccessful, but in 1921, Banting and Best injected pancreas extracts into diabetic dogs to discover resulting reductions in blood glucose levels.
The controlling factor present in the pancreatic extract was insulin, commercially produced since shortly after Banting and Bests discovery. There are two broad
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