MIP 315A Lecture Notes - Weight Loss, Diabetic Coma, Hyperlipidemia
16 May 2014
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There are 20. 8 million children and adults in the united states, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. 6. 2 million (nearly 1/3) are unaware they have the disease. Major lesion insulin-producing (islet) cells destroyed by auto-immune response. Exposure to certain viral infections or other environmental toxins may serve to trigger abnormal antibody. Autoantibodies produced against insulin, islet cells, product of islet cells . Weight loss in spite of increased appetite * Normal production of insulin, but it doesn"t do anything. Metabolic syndrome: obesity, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, lack of exercise. Blood ph lowers due to fat digestion diabetic coma. Know the basic elements of the nervous system. Understand the epidemiology and pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and parkinson"s disease. Myelin sheath fat rolled around the axon. Pressure builds until it equals arterial pressure, the blood to brain stops. Chronic unexplained headache, personality change, or hemiparesis/plegia. Embolytic forms somewhere else, moves into brain.
