Causes and Treatment
Type of infection believed to trigger the onset of type one diabetes.
What is a viral infection?
Type of tests required to diagnose either type 1 or 2 diabetes.
What is blood tests?
3 symptoms of type one diabetes.
What is increased thirst, frequent urination, bed-wetting in children who previously didn't wet the bed during the night, extreme hunger, unintended weight loss, irritability and other mood changes, fatigue and weakness, and blurred vision? (only 3 required)
Effect of diabetes on the kidneys.
What is affects its ability to filter waste?
Another name for type one diabetes
What is juvenile diabetes?
Diabetes is referred as this type of disease because the body attacks itself.
What is an autoimmune disease?
Diabetes test in which your blood is tested after eight hours of eating nothing.
What is fasting blood glucose test?
What cause results in dehydration and weight loss?
What is the lack of insulin to break down the glucose to transport them to your cells?
Effect of diabetes on the circulatory system.
What is results in high blood pressure and atherosclerosis and doubles your risk of heart attack and stroke?
Number of people in America with type one diabetes
What is 1.25 million?
Ethnicity most likely to get type one diabetes.
What is Caucasian?
Diabetes test where blood is tested two hours after drinking a special glucose drink
What is an oral glucose test?
Aim of any treatment in diabetes.
What is controlling and maintaining a normal blood sugar level
Effect of diabetes on your nerves/nervous system
What is neuropathy (nerve damage) from oxygen not being delivered to blood vessels?
Average life expectancy for men with type one diabetes.
What is 66 years?
Ethnicity least likely to get type one diabetes.
What is Chinese and South-American?
Blood test where you blood is tested at an arbitrary time in the day
What is a random blood glucose test?
What chemical do many diabetic treatments contain?
What is insulin?
Condition of the digestive system caused by diabetes.
What is gastroparesis?
Average life expectancy for women with type one diabetes.
What is 68 years?
Chemical the pancreas stops producing that causes type one diabetes.
What is insulin?
Blood test that tests the level of hemoglobin instead of the blood glucose level and is the most reliable test for diabetes.
What is the A1C Test?
Disease that is a symptom of diabetes where when the body starts breaking down fat cells, creating a chemical called ketones
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
Reason why your blood vessels constrict when you have diabetes.
What is excess blood sugar decreases the elasticity of the blood vessels?
Age at which type one diabetes is usually diagnosed.
What is 18-years-old?