MHS-1930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gestational Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus Type 1, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Medicine, Health, and Society
• Course: MHS-1930
• Professor: Muse Courtney

Document Summary

Lecture 5: diabetes: in the 2010 cdc report: 23. 6 million, or 7. 8% of the population have diabetes, 2014 report: 29. 1 million people, 9. 3, includes diagnosed and undiagnosed, with 27. 8% likely are undiagnosed, percentage of u. s. When we eat, the pancreas produces the correct amount of insulin. Americans: gestational diabetes, glucose intolerance that occurs during pregnancy, and oftentimes there is a progressive sugar build-up during their pregnancy. Mexico, and therefore an increase: 245 billion annual cost attributed to diabetes, 176 billion from medical costs, indirect costs, such as disability, lost work, premature death: 69 million, average medical expenditures for a patient with diabetes: 2. 3x higher. How stress affects diabetes, through the onset and the management of diabetes. Stress: (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s of threat, de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds, or stru(cid:272)tural (cid:272)o(cid:374)strai(cid:374)ts. In this class: stress is anything that disrupts the normal functioning of the individual. Can be negative or positive: positive examples: marriage, childbirth, getting a new job.