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Diabetes Mellitus

Title: Diabetes Mellitus
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 784 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes mellitus affects approximately five percent of the United States population, about 10-12 million people, of whom about half remain undiagnosed. Diabetes mellitus can eventually damage the eyes, kidneys, heart, and limbs, and can endanger pregnancy. Proper treatment, however, can minimize these complications. Diabetes mellitus is usually classified into two types. Type I, or …showed first 75 words of 784 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 784 total…persons who do not require insulin addition to control their diabetes, as well as for those who have trouble injecting themselves or whose diabetes is not controlled by insulin addition. Some diabetes patients are now equipped with insulin pumps, carried on the body, that deliver insulin at preset times and rates. Such pumps improve control over blood-sugar levels, although acute but nonfatal complications such as ketoacidosis and infection of the infusion site are sometimes observed.

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