TYPE II DIABETES

Care and Treatment of Ambulatory Patients with Type II Diabetes

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Care and Treatment of Ambulatory Patients with Type II Diabetes

Introduction

Chronic disease of impaired carbohydrate, fat metabolism and protein; and show evidence of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance is known as Type II Diabetes (Alberti & Zimmet, 1998).

Non-insulin-dependent diabetes is the previous name of Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Type II diabetes emerge as a major health problem in US; the consequences of this health problem, doubled the risk of mortality and epidemic numbers as compare to a healthy population. It was reported that about 26 million adults that are 8 percent of US population is suffering from Type II diabetes, and estimated that every year the number of patients increased by two million.

The reason of this health problem can be the family history, obesity, gestational diabetes background, low physical activity, and many others. After the age of 45, the risks of diabetes will increase, but the trend of T2DM is rapidly increasing in United States. The reason of this rapid increase is obesity.

Discussion

Due to the rapid increase in the number of diabetes II patients, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has revised its standard care for patients to improve the health and wellbeing of US adults. The ADA course of action highlight on creating awareness about diabetes II, as well as guide patients regarding nutrition and physical activity changes to control diabetes. The two major problems faced by type II diabetes patients are less insulin produced by pancreas, and muscles, fats and liver cells are not functioning properly. This reflects that the glucose in the blood without fulfilling its role of energy to the body overflows into the urine.

In United States, 25.8 million people are diabetes patients, out of these 18.8 million were diagnosed and the rest were not. From 18.8 million diagnosed patients, 90 to 95 percent are adults. The symptoms of diabetes among US adults are non-traumatic lower-limb, failure of kidney, heart disease and blindness.

There is an essential need of a health care program, specifically for diabetes II patients in order to reduce complications, to introduce effective individualized treatment program, and because of the rapid increase in the number of diabetes type II patients, both adults and youth. The goals of this program are set to provide proper diabetes self management training education, to observe increasing numbers of patients, and to ensure that ...