Diabetes in the United States Diabetes affects more than15.7 million American's, or 5.9% of the population. In the United States alone, 10.3 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 5.4 million people remain undiagnosed, with 798,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Diabetes affe...

What if I have type 1 diabetes? Type 1 is the type of diabetes that people most often get before 30 years of age. All people with type 1 diabetes need to take insulin (IN-suh-lin) because their bodies do not make enough of it. Insulin helps turn sugar from food into energy for the body to work. Wh...

Abstract Diabetes is a disease that affects 18.2 million people in the United States alone. This disease results when there is a high level of sugar in the blood for an extended period of time. It can be controlled by diet, exercise, pills and insulin injections. There are three main types of di...

I. A. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) was originally described in 1905 by Stein and Leventhal as a syndrome consisting of amenorrhea, hirsutism, and obesity in association with enlarged polycystic ovaries. It is now realized that this relatively common syndrome is an extremely heterogenous clinic...

Diabetes Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, is a chronic illness this means that it has no cure and the symptoms persist over a long period of time. This illness is a result of an imbalance of hormones (insulin) produced in the pancreas. Insulin plays an important role in how the body uses food. Insuli...

Diabetes Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, is a chronic illness this means that it has no cure and the symptoms persist over a long period of time. This illness is a result of an imbalance of hormones, insulin, produced in the pancreas. Insulin plays an important role in how the body uses food. Ins...

Diabetes Mellitus is a disorder caused by decreased production of insulin, or by decreased ability to use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body's tissues absorb glucose (sugar) so it can be used as a source of energy. Insulin is necessary for blood glucose to go from the blood to the in...

As June Biermann ingrains her daily dose of insulin into her thigh, she remembers the day she was diagnosed with diabetes. Back then, in 1967, June never believed that she could live for more than ten years with her disease. But that was thirty-four years ago; now she lives a productive and healthy ...

Normally, sugars and starches (carbohydrates) in the foods we eat are processed by digestive juices into glucose. Glucose circulates in the blood as a major energy source for body functions. Its use is regulated primarily by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas gland (located behind the stoma...

Diabetes Diabetes is a very well known disorder. Nearly sixteen million people in the United States alone, almost one out of every seventeen people, have diabetes. Diabetes is a serious illness, and there are about 1,800 new cases are being diagnosed each day. To completely understand diabetes,...

"Diabetes Mellitus" Diabetes mellitus is one of the most serious health problems facing the Native American Indians today. The disease is very common in many tribes cross the United States. "Diabetes plagues our Navajo people and will continue to be an epidemic disease until each of us takes acti...

Diabetes Diabetes is considered by some in the medical field as a silent killer, which can become loud if the person lets it. By not knowing your status or getting your status late it could have the person suffer some serious medical injury to the body. If detected early it can be handled a...

Each year 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and over 13,000 or whom are children. That's 35 children every day. 16 million Americans have diabetes and of these, 5.4 are undiagnosed. Diabetes kills one American every three minutes. It afflicts 120 million people worldw...