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A 6 page research paper that offers an overview of this disease. Diabetes mellitus is a devastating metabolic disease that affects millions of Americans. This literature review offers a comprehensive overview of this disease, describing its symptoms, history, how it affects the body, its ramifications, prognosis and treatment, among other topics. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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body, its ramifications, prognosis and treatment. When diabetes was discovered and early research Diabetes mellitus has been recognized as a chronic disease since antiquity. It was not until nineteenth
century, however, that Harley, a British physician, recognized that there are "at least two distinct forms of the disease (diabetes) requiring diametrically opposing forms of treatment" (Gale, 2001, p.
217). A French physician, Lancereaux, is generally acknowledged as making the distinction between fat and thin diabetes (Gale, 2001). In the era prior to the discovery of insulin, this distinction
was stark. Children with type 1 diabetes, and some adults, died within a few months, but overweight older patients frequently survived for years (Dagogo-Jack, 2002). Using the term "type
1" and "type 2" originated with a study performed by W.H. Sheldon in 1940 (Gale, 2001). Sheldon was convinced the diabetes was a single disease and attempted to prove this
through classification of morphological types. He was, therefore, puzzled to observe that diabetic patients could be classified into two distinctly different morphological categories, which he referred to as "group I
and group II" (Gale, 2001, p. 217). Group I was characterized by being "young, thin...(and) with normal blood pressure" and group II was characterized as "older, obese...(and) with hypertension" (Gale,
2001, p. 217). Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases that are characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels in the blood that result from defects in
insulin secretion (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Commonly, referred to simply as "diabetes," the term means literally "sweet urine" (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). This is because elevated levels of blood glucose
spill over into urine. In a person without the disease, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin, a hormone that is produced by the pancreas. When blood glucose levels
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