Diabetes

People who experience losses due to aren't just a statistics for people to look at. They are our friends, teachers, brothers, sisters, and others that we lose if we don't learn about this deadly health problem.
In 1995, about 16 million people in the U.S. had . But only 8 million had been diagnosed with it. Isn't that scary? Over half didn't even know they had it and could slowly takeing their life by eating the wrong foods for them. The number of people that were diagnosed with has gone from 1.6 million in 1958 to 8 million in 1995 which was five times what it was. And will contuine to go up as the years go by and neew technology is developed to detect it. is the seventh leading ...

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insulin shots. Heres a question "What is ?"
The word diabetes describes either a deficiency of insulin or a decreased ablitby of the body to use insulin. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas. Insulin allows sugar to enter body cells to be converted in to energy. It is also needed to synthesize protein and store fats. In uncontrolled diabetes glucose and lipids remain in teh bloodstream, with time, damage teh body's vital organs and contribute to heart disease. Diabetes is classified in to two main types: non-insulin-dependent diabetes and of course insulin- dependent diabetes. The most common case is non insulin-dependent. If affects 90% of the people with diabetes and will usually appear after the age of forty. But it can occur at any age, it most often appears in childhood or the teen years. What are some of the costs of Diabetes?

Diabetes puts a heavy burden on the nation every year. In 1992, over $92 billioin in direct and indirect costs were spent on diabetes. The ...

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Added: 5/31/2006 02:52:27 PM
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