DIABETES

BY:YOLANDA CAMARENA , HEIDY GAMEZ,

YASMIN FLORES

WHAT IS
DIABETES?
Too

much sugar in the blood that was caused by

not having enough insulin

WHAT CAUSES DIABETES?

High blood sugar levels

Type 1 diabetes: the blood doesnt produce insulin

Type 2 diabetes: the blood does not produce enough insulin

Genetics and environmental factors

IS IT PREVENTABLE?

Yes and no

Some ways are by eating healthy food and having a diet

Getting plenty of physical activity and losing extra fat weight

But if you don't have diabetes you can prevent other disease like

Making year round eye exams

As well as clinical trials

ALC test often

And making monthly check ups with your doctor to see if it gets worst

TREATMENT:

Type 2: Healthy eating

Regular exercise

Diabetes medication or insulin therapy

Blood sugar monitoring

Medicine: Metformin, Sulfonylureas, Meglitinides, Thiazolidininediones

Type 1:insulin

Exercise

A healthy eating

SYMPTOMS:
Type 1:
-Weight loss, even if youre eating more (only type 1)
-Feeling very hungry
-Blurry vision
-Feeling very thirsty

-Cuts/bruises are slow in healing

-Extreme fatigue
-Urinating often
Type 2:
-Tingling, pain, or numbness in the hands/feet (only type 2)
-All of the above but so mild its almost unnoticeable

PROGNOSIS

Type

Type

1: 15% will die before the age of 40

2: Getting this in your 40s takes 5 to 10 years off the years

youre expected to live

GROUPS MORE LIKELY TO GET DIABETES

Type 2 Percentage

If

your parent, brother, sister, son, daughter has

Type 1 then you have a higher chance of

getting Type 1 diabetes
Whites
Older

are more likely to get Type 1

people have a higher chance of having Type 2

African Americans,

Mexican Americans, American

Indians, Pacific Islanders, & Asian Americans have a
higher risk for Type 2

18.7

Hispanic

11.8

16.1

7.1

American
Indian
Asian
American

20.6

8.4

Pacific
Islander

STATISTICS IN THE US AD WORLD

WIDE
Percentage of People with
Diabetes in the US

TX, Oklahoma, Georga

Louisina, Alabama,Tennessee,West Virginia
Mississippi
WA,OR,MT,SD,ND,IA,WI,NH,VY,AK
Maine,Kansas,New Mexico,Virginia,Hawaii
CA,NV,AZ,MO,IL,PA,NY
Utah

Idaho,Wyoming,Nebraska,Ma,RI
Arkansas,Noth Carolina,Kentucky,Ohio

FOUNDATIONS AND ORGANIZATION

JDRF
International
Children

Diabetes Foundation

American
Diabetes

Diabetes Foundation

Diabetes Association

Hands Foundation

SOURCES:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/basics/causes/con20033091

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2diabetes/basics/treatment/con-20031902

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1diabetes/basics/definition/con-20019573

http://www.idf.org/sites/default/files/Atlas-poster-2014_EN.pdf

http://www.changingdiabetesbarometer.com/diabetesdata/countries/usa.aspx?intmap=prev#tab-2