According to Nurse Eulynis Brown, the whole objective of the free screening and pressure checks activity is to increase the level of awareness about diabetes among people, especially locals.
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A young man gets his pressure taken
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She indicated that diabetes in on the rise and every effort must be made to check the rise.
The St. Kitts Diabetes Association was also assisted by volunteers from the International University of Nursing, especially in the likes of Maureen McGuckin, an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University.
Diabetes is a syndrome characterized by disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia) resulting from either low levels of the hormone insulin or from abnormal resistance to insulin's effects coupled with inadequate levels of insulin secretion to compensate.[2] The characteristic symptoms are excessive urine production (polyuria), excessive thirst and increased fluid intake (polydipsia), and blurred vision; these symptoms are likely absent if the blood sugar is only mildly elevated.
The World Health Organization recognizes three main forms of diabetes mellitus: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes (occurring during pregnancy), which have similar signs, symptoms, and consequences, but different causes and population distributions.
While, ultimately, all forms are due to the beta cells of the pancreas being unable to produce sufficient insulin to prevent hyperglycemia, the causes are different.
Type 1 diabetes is usually due to autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin.
Type 2 diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance in target tissues, this causes a need for abnormally high amounts of insulin and diabetes develops when the beta cells cannot meet this demand.
~~Adz:Right~~ Gestational diabetes is similar to type 2 diabetes in that it involves insulin resistance; the hormones of pregnancy can cause insulin resistance in women genetically predisposed to developing this condition.
All three types of diabetes have been treatable since insulin became available since 1921.
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