Why is it important to focus on prevention for chronic diseases such as Type II diabetes?

1.Why is it important to focus on prevention for chronic diseases such as Type II diabetes?

2. Create your initial post by including your prediabetes test results. Explain the significance of the score. Describe all of the important information that you researched and write up a narrative as though you were educating yourself as a patient. Be sure to explain the anatomy, physiology, or pathophysiology involved wherever possible, including in any labs or diagnostic tests, symptoms, or impact of prevention measures. NOTE: You must begin with a basic overall explanation of the endocrine and urinary systems, as they are each involved in the development of symptoms and effects from diabetes.

•Remember to post using proper APA style

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M6D1: The Diabetes Epidemic: What’s the Risk?

While it is important to educate others, it is equally important to educate yourself. Understanding risk factors, warning signs, and symptoms for disease for which you may be at risk of developing is an essential step in preventing disease. Many chronic diseases have both a genetic and lifestyle component to them, including environmental influences. While you cannot control your heredity, you can control your lifestyle, especially if you learn of your risk for a disease early on.

One such chronic disease that can wreak havoc on your endocrine, urinary, cardiovascular, and nervous systems is diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes. Type I or juvenile diabetes is entirely hereditary and diagnosed early on in life but Type II diabetes, what used to be called adult-onset diabetes, is influenced by lifestyle as well. More recently, however, Type II diabetes is being diagnosed in children, adolescents and young adults in startling numbers. Ask just about any room full of people in the United States to raise their hands if they know or are related to someone with diabetes and more than likely you will have a room full of raised hands. The diabetes epidemic in the United States is like no other chronic disease ever seen before. Not only will the disease continue to cost the healthcare system more money, but will cost people their lives. The risk factors associated with Type II diabetes are also believed to be the same risk factors that will cause this youngest generation of children in the United States to, for the first time in history, live shorter lives than those of their parents or grandparents.

First, let’s start with questions based on your opinion:

1.Why is it important to focus on prevention for chronic diseases such as Type II diabetes?

Complete the following steps, carefully consider the many factors at play, and respond to the questions below. Make sure you post your results using a patient’s pseudonym, it is not necessary to use yourself as the patient, though it may be personally beneficial to consider your own lifestyle and risk factors. Be sure to also carefully review the rest of the module’s materials before completing your initial post:

1. Visit the American Diabetes Association and take the quiz Take the Type 2 Diabetes Risk Test. http://www.diabetes.org/are-you-at-risk/diabetes-risk-test/

2. Click on “Start the Test” (Took test already. Look below for score.)

3. Complete the quiz

4. Record your score

5. Explore the site further to research any details related to prevention measures, risk factors, signs and symptoms to look out for, or anything else that could be useful

2. Create your initial post by including your prediabetes test results. Explain the significance of the score. Describe all of the important information that you researched and write up a narrative as though you were educating yourself as a patient. Be sure to explain the anatomy, physiology, or pathophysiology involved wherever possible, including in any labs or diagnostic tests, symptoms, or impact of prevention measures. NOTE: You must begin with a basic overall explanation of the endocrine and urinary systems, as they are each involved in the development of symptoms and effects from diabetes.

•Remember to post using proper APA style