What Does Diabetes Do?

Diabetes Mellitus Type I and II Causes and Risk Factors

Diabetes is a serious, lifelong condition that affects an estimated 23.6 million people in the United States. About 5.7 million do not know they have it. Each year, about 1.6 million people find out they have diabetes and probably have had the disease for seven years before it was diagnosed. The two types that we will be profiling are type I and type II.

Types

Type I, previously referred to as juvenile or insulin dependent diabetes usually develops during childhood or adolescence and affects approximately 5 percent to 10 percent of all adults with diabetes. Patients with Type I diabetes typically require daily injections of insulin. Type II diabetes is the most common type that affects 90 to 95 percent of all adults who develop diabetes.

Risk Factors

Some of the risk factors for both type I and II include older age, obesity, family history of diabetes, impaired glucose metabolism, and race/ethnicity. African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians, and some Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders are at particularly high risk for type II diabetes.

Symptoms

The symptoms of diabetes can vary from person to person and often develop gradually. Being very thirsty, excess urination, blurred vision at times, fatigue, sudden loss of weight, dry skin, slow healing sores, increased number of infections, tingling or loss of feeling sensation in the feet, and vomiting.

Next week there will be more information about Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes

My Name is Kelley Carrillo, and I am an LVN student. My blog will consist of information regarding Diabetes Mellitus.. There are two types of Diabetes-Type I and Type II.   As the weeks progress, we will profile Diabetes and go into more depth about the two types of Diabetes including the causes, signs and symptoms, risk factors, tests, treatment, diet options, and medications. Feel feel to comment on my blog with your input and stories :)