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Diabetes Mellitus
What´s Diabetes?What´s Diabetes?Diabetes is a group of metabolic alterations that lead to the increase of blood glucose concentration.
Why there is glucose in our blood?Why the rise of glucose is dangerous?
Glucose in blood
Excesive glucose in blood
Types of DiabetesTypes of Diabetes
There are three different types of diabetes :
Type I
Type II
Gestational
EpidemiologEpidemiologyy
Type I
It affects approximately the 10% of diabetics in the world
Type II
It affects approximately 90% of the Diabetics in the world
Gestational
It occurs in about 2%–5% of all pregnancies and may improve or disappear after delivery.
SymptoSymptomsms
Type 2 diabetes develops slowly, no symptoms at first and the suffers may not have symptoms for many years.
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes develop over a short period of time. People may be very sick by the time they are diagnosed.
Gestational Diabetes, there are no symptoms, or they are mild.The blood sugar (glucose) level usually returns to normal after delivery.
HypoglycemiaHypoglycemia What happens when our blood sugar is too low (Hypoglycemia)
?
The most common causes of hypoglycemia in diabetics are :
Taking your insulin at the wrong time
Taking too much insulin by mistake
Not eating enough during meals or snacks after you have taken insulin or diabetes
Exercising more or at a different time than usual
Drinking alcohol
TreatmentTreatment “Diabetes Treatment
involves medicines, diet, and exercise”
This presentation has This presentation has been done by : been done by :
Eva Ros PlataSofía Díaz Esteban &
Resources: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000305.htmhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000313.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus#Lifestylehttp://www.health-today.org/type-1-diabetes-health-insurance-is-critical/