HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Glucose Test, Gestational Diabetes, Substance Abuse

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1101
• Professor: James Gomes

Document Summary

Hss 1101- lecture 12: diabetes and recognizing use, misuse, abuse, and addiction to drugs and behaviours. Increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Understanding the development of type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes can lead to type 2 diabetes. Blood tests to diagnose and monitor diabetes. 2 hours later, blood tested for glucose. Recommended: lose 5 to 10% of current weight. 30 minutes of activity 5 days a week. Recognizing use, misuse, abuse, and addiction to drugs and behaviours. Drug use: taking a drug, as instructed. Drug misuse: taking a drug, not prescribe. Drug abuse: excessive use of a drug. Persistent desire to control (loss of control) Tolerance: to obtain desired effects = larger dose. Withdrawal: drug causes an effect the body creates by itself. Still preferable to current (unhappy) life circumstances. Planned process of confrontation by family, significant others, and loved ones. Chapter 9 reducing risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer. hss 1101.