TEACHING OBJECTIVES: Diabetes?

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TOPIC: diabetes Disease ProcessTEACHING OBJECTIVES: Design informational sessions forfamilies in all chapters withconsideration for their:leducational levellprimary languagelculture or ethnicitylfamily structurellearning stylelprevious experience with themedical communityLEARNING OBJECTIVES: Learners (parents, child, relative orself) will be able to:1. Define the basic disease processof type 1 and type 2 diabetes (also see Chapters 3 and 4). normal and abnormalblood sugars along with HbA1cas part of the diagnosis Define symptoms of type 1 ortype 2 diabetes and comparewith the symptoms experiencedby the patient at 2What IsDiabetes?TYPE1 (INSULIN-DEPENDENT)DIABETESType 1 (also known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus[IDDM] or juvenile or childhood) diabetes is the most commontype found in children and young adults. This conditionoccurs when the pancreas doesn t make enough 2 DIABETESThere is another kind of diabetes that is sometimes found inoverweight pre-teens and teenagers, and is also the mostcommon type of diabetes in adults over age 40 years.

12 Chapter 2 – What is Diabetes? HONEYMOON (GRACE) PERIOD As stated previously, type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes does not turn into type 2 (adult) diabetes as children become adults.

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