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What Is Diabetes? | 2 Minute Guide | Diabetes UK

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Scientist: Kung-Ting Kao
University of British Columbia

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Prevention for diabetes
-Eat healthy fats
-Research your family history
-Be physically active
-Make healthier food choices

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Diagnosis for diabetes
-This most common type of diagnosis for diabetes can include a fasting blood sugar test.

Treatment for diabetes
-Insulin
-Healthy eating
-Regular exercise
-Weight loss
-Blood sugar Monitoring

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PubMed Article:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27622231/
-The main goal we want to achieve is normalizing hyperglyceamia, facilitating lifestyle modification, as well as managing diabetes.

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1. Frequent urination
2. Frequent thirst
3. Losing weight without trying

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Diabetes is a chronic (long-lasting) health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy.

Your body breaks down most of the food you eat into sugar (glucose) and releases it into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body's cells for use as energy.

With diabetes, your body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it as well as it should. When there isn't enough insulin or cells stop responding to insulin, too much blood sugar stays in your bloodstream. Over time, that can cause serious health problems, such as heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease.

There isn't a cure yet for diabetes, but losing weight, eating healthy food, and being active can really help. Other things you can do to help:

Types of Diabetes

There are three main types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes (diabetes while pregnant).

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction (the body attacks itself by mistake). This reaction stops your body from making insulin. Approximately 5-10% of the people who have diabetes have type 1. Type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed at any age, and symptoms often develop quickly. If you have type 1 diabetes, you'll need to take insulin every day to survive. Currently, no one knows how to prevent type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes

With type 2 diabetes, your body doesn't use insulin well and can't keep blood sugar at normal levels. About 90-95% of people with diabetes have type 2. It develops over many years and is usually diagnosed in adults (but more and more in children, teens, and young adults). You may not notice any symptoms, so it's important to get your blood sugar tested if you're at risk. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed with healthy lifestyle changes, such as:

Losing weight.

Eating healthy food.

Being active.

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes develops in pregnant women who have never had diabetes. If you have gestational diabetes, your baby could be at higher risk for health problems. Gestational diabetes usually goes away after your baby is born. However, it increases your risk for type 2 diabetes later in life. Your baby is more likely to have obesity as a child or teen and develop type 2 diabetes later in life.

Prediabetes

In the United States, about 98 million adults-more than 1 in 3-have prediabetes. More than 8 in 10 of them don't know they have it. With prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Prediabetes raises your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. But there's good news. If you have prediabetes, a CDC-recognized lifestyle change program can help you take healthy steps to reverse it.

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If you have diabetes, your body either doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it as well as it should. Find out about the different diabetes types.

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3. What is the causative agent? List and show picture.

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3. What is the causative agent? List and show picture.

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immune system disease, overweight, family history, obesity, and physical inactivity.

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Diabetes is a chronic disease that is affects the way that food is turned into energy. Whenever you eat food, your body turns the food into sugar (glucose) and it is released into your blood stream. When this happens the sugar in your body signals for it to go make your pancreas release insulin for energy. However when you have diabetes your body doesn't produce insulin the way its suppose to and whenever this happens the sugar that is released to make insulin stays in your bloodstream. (CDC)