HST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hyperglycemia, Fetus, Calvin Coolidge
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Hst110 lecture 5 type ii diabetes in indian country. Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the fells of our bodies. When you have diabetes, your body either doesn"t make enough insulin or can"t use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugar to build up in our blood. The body doesn"t produce insulin, a hormone that helps the body deliver glucose from the bloodstream to cells. Develops over time and is often not diagnosed until adulthood. Insulin resistance: the body doesn"t use insulin properly. Eventually the pancreas can"t keep up with hyperglycemia, elevated glucose in the blood.
