Diabetes Research Paper

Diabetes
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Introduction
Diabetes increases the risk of morbidity and mortality, while the case for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) is now considered one of the approaches for managing the condition (Norris et al., 2002). However, follow-up sessions help to reinforce what the patients learn given that learned behavior may take time to change. Most of the diabetes interventions aim to improve the quality of life while also reducing complications. To maintain the long-term behavioral change, there is a need to understand how the different affect glycemic control. Since diabetic patients need to have adequate coping skills, the education intervention highlights the importance of lifestyle behavior in influencing health outcome. This paper focuses on the health communication in diabetes intervention and effectiveness of self-management intervention programs.
Background
Homeostasis is the state of equilibrium that the enables the body to perform its function, and an imbalances comprises the health condition of a person. Diabetes is one of the diseases that affect homeostasis whereby there is an imbalance in the blood sugar levels as well as impaired water regulations (Unger & Schwartz, 2013). People suffering from diabetes have high sugar levels, and they may suffer thirst, hunger and urination more frequently compared to non-diabetics. In Type 1diabetes, the patients are unable to produce insulin, this results in an imbalance in the blood sugar levels (WebMed, 2015). The patients then require insulin injections to bring abuot homeostasis. On the other hand, the Type 2 diabetes arises when insulin levels produced are insufficient or the body is resistant to insulin (WebMed, 2015). Living a healthy lifestyle is recommended in his case including, exercising, proper dieting, weight loss and proper monitoring of the blood sugar levels.
Flow diagram of the diabetes progression



This explains the progression of diabetes depending on defective insulin action and secretion, which impair the homeostasis of blood glucose, while also increasing the risk of diabetes.
According to (Jayagopal et al., 2002), there is a biological variation in insulin resistance for patients with diabetes type 2. Since diabetic patients are at a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases, there is a need to identify the impact of insulin resistance, which can then be a therapeutic target. In any case, reducing insulin resistance is related to better gylcemic control, and this also facilitates the modification of various elements of the insulin resistance syndrome. Nonetheless, one of the main challenges in treating diabetes is that there are few studies that focus on the biological variability of insulin resistance (Jayagopal et al., 2002).
Negative feedback of homeostasis


The negative feedback loop highlights the changes to bring the body into a state of homeostasis after a rise in blood sugar level. When the glucose level increase the pancreas receptors produce more insulin, with liver in turn storing the glucose (glycogen), and this then returns the glucose level to the normal level to ensure there is no more deviation.
Pathogenesis of diabetes
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