diabetes
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- Created on: 09-01-14 14:39
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- Type II Diabetes
- symptoms
- Most common: Polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia and weight loss (not in type II)
- Less common: blurred vision, itchiness, peripheral neuropathy, vaginal infections and fatigue
- clinical complications
- CVD, ischemic heart disease, stroke, renal failure, diabetic retinopathy
- Type II
- Cause
- Insufficient insulin production from beta cells giving rise to insulin resistance (often due to obesity having to high demand for insulin)
- Risk factors
- lifestyle
- poor diet/exercise (obesity), smoking, sugary drinks, lack of sleep
- Genetics
- Age, female gender, genetics (polygenic)
- Medical conditions
- Drugs such as glucocorticoid, thiazides, beta blockers, statins all predispose diabetes
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Renal problems
- Cushings
- Acromegaly
- lifestyle
- Treatment
- improved diet and exercise, or medication
- Definition
- Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
- metabolic disorder characterised by high blood glucose due to relative insulin deficiency from insulin resistance
- Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
- Cause
- Diabetic nephropathy
- progressive kidney disease caused by angipathy of capillaries in the kidney glomeruli, due to diabetes
- Diagnosis
- Tests
- fasting glucose, 2 hour glucose
- HbA1c
- glucose tolerance test
- random glucose
- Clinical Presentation
- symptoms
- Most common: Polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia and weight loss (not in type II)
- Less common: blurred vision, itchiness, peripheral neuropathy, vaginal infections and fatigue
- symptoms
- Tests
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