KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Diabetes Mellitus Type 1, Blood Sugar, Frequent Urination
19 Jun 2019
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Type 1 diabetes: type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed at any age but the highest incidence rate for diagnosis is in the teen years, ~0. 05% change of developing t1d in your teens. Increased more around the age of 14 (puberty and hormones: males are at greater risk for developing type 1 diabetes, before january 1922, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (t1d) was in effect a death sentence. If child was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes had only 6 months to live: diabetes means pissing evil in latin. Banting also got an assistant, a medical student by the name of charles best. The experiment was set to start in the summer 1921. Identical twin studies: if one has type 1 diabetes, the other has a likelihood of 50% to get it. Some kind of virus that triggers the pancreas to destroy the insulin: only 4 grams of glucose circulates in the blood of healthy non-diabetic person weighing less than.
