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    Type 2 Diabetes Factors

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    development of diabetes involve poor eating habits, lack of exercise, and being overweight. However, this is not the case for type 1 diabetes and these are not the only significant factors when looking at type 2 diabetes. Genetic factors have been linked to the onset of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and researchers are working hard to understand more about the link between family history and the development of diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes and Associated Genetic Factors Type 1 diabetes accounts for

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    Type 2 Diabetes: An Epidemic

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    It is a silent, deadly killer that often escapes blame. It is type 2 diabetes. According to the World Health Organization, 347 million people have diabetes worldwide, and 90-95% of these cases are type 2 diabetes. To make matters worse, it is estimated that around 25% of all cases go undiagnosed before it is too late. Even then, one’s death is often attributed to other things such as heart disease, stroke, or kidney failure. Type 2 diabetes is a serious disease that causes the body to become insulin

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    Type 2 Diabetes Causes

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    There are many different causes of Type 2 Diabetes, the two main causes of Type 2 Diabetes are genetics, this means that if an individuals parent has Type 2 Diabetes, their child is at a higher risk of contracting the disease also. Lifestyle factors such as having an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise are a cause of Diabetes. Age One factor affecting the cause of Type 2 Diabetes is age. Age affects the cause of the disease as individuals over the age of 40 are more likely to contract it

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    Type 2 Diabetes 2.4

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    Physical Activities Physical activities help to reduce the blood glucose level. This situation happened because the muscle uses the glucose that is stored in the body in order to do physical activities. For adults who are 19 to 64 years of age should do 2 hour and 30 minute of moderate intensity aerobic activity in a week or 10 minutes or more per session. Examples of activities are cycling and brisk walking. iii) Gestational Diabetes • Insulin Therapy The function of insulin is to convert carbohydrate

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    Type 2 Diabetes Samantha Cilione Oregon Institute of Technology   Type 2 diabetes, the body doesn’t know how to use the very little insulin the pancreas produces if it produces any at all. While there is a rare possibility to have Type 1 diabetes but, that it is a genetic disease where the pancreas produces little to no insulin causing the person to have to manually inject insulin. Since Type 2 diabetes is more of a controllable disease and know to be a “lifestyle” disease a person does not have

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    There are two major hypotheses that explain the causal pathway between diabetes and depression. One of them states that depression precedes type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately, the mechanisms that are underlying the association between diabetes and depression are not clearly understood. Theoretically, it is believed that the increased risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with depression is due to increased counterregulatory hormone release and action, alterations in transport function of glucose, and

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    Type 2 Diabetes Essay

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    Abstract. [Purpose] Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a disease of civilization with epidemiological coverage. An integral component of a comprehensive process of type 2 diabetes mellitus prevention and treatment is reasonably proportioned exercise. The aim of the study was to evaluate the weekly physical activity of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and healthy subjects with respect to recommendations of the American College of Sports Medicine and American Diabetes Association. [Subjects] The study

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    Children and Type 2 Diabetes Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been reported with increased frequency over the last twenty years in adolescents and children in the United States. As a result of T2DM glucose metabolism within the body of affected adolescents and children is severely compromised. Formerly known as adult onset and/or insulin resistant diabetes T2DM occurs due to the cell inability to properly use insulin which then results in lowered secretion of insulin as well as insulin resistance

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    Type 2 Diabetic Essay

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    Type 2 Diabetics also need to avoid simple sugars because they will give Diabetics a bad blood sugar level and then quickly result to the need to correct their glucose level. Diabetics are also supposed to be held to at most 2 beers in one sitting. Foods are not the only thing that can affect their body in a negative or positive way. One big aspect that will differ how healthy each Diabetic is is exercise. Diabetics, especially type 2 Diabetics need to avoid being lazy

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    Category 2: Inhibitors of EA Strategy adoption Sub question 2: What are the factors that could influence the adoption of EA strategy in SMMEs? It is evident that there still a long way to go between EA and SMEs. Developing architectures can be a difficult task even for large business, but SMMEs find it more challenging. The interview results indicate that training; IT skills and support from management are aspects that could influence the adoption of EA in the small business environments. SMMEs

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