Diabetes Mellitus And Alzheimer’s Disease Link And Risk Factors How to Prevent And Treat Complications And Improve Life
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In many respects, Alzheimer's is a brain form of Diabetes.
Even in the earliest stages of the disease, the brain's ability to metabolize sugar is reduced. Usually, insulin plays a significant role in helping the brain take up sugar from the blood. But, in Alzheimer's, insulin is not very effective in the brain. Consequently, the brain cells practically starve to death.
This book on Diabetes Mellitus aims at giving an insight into various aspects of this chronic disease and the risk factors that lead to it.
The various ways it develops in the human body; the old and new approaches to treatment, both from a pharmacological and a non-pharmacological point of view. Ways to prevent and manage diabetes complications; how to improve the lives of diabetic patients who are faced with physical and psychological problems; statistical data from around the world focuses on the epidemiology and outlines the issue of the cost of Diabetes.
Finally, this book links diabetes mellitus with Alzheimer's disease as a different expression of Diabetes since it is closely associated with several critical neuronal factors implicated in dementia.
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Diabetes Mellitus And Alzheimer’s Disease Link And Risk Factors How to Prevent And Treat Complications And Improve Life - Sam Dickinson
History
For 2,000 years diabetes has been recognized as a devastating and deadly disease. In the first century A.D. a Greek physician, Aretaeus, described the destructive nature of the affliction, which he named diabetes
from the Greek word for siphon
. Physicians in ancient times, like Aretaeus, recognized the symptoms of diabetes but were powerless to treat it effectively.
In the 17thcentury a London physician, Dr. Thomas Willis, determined whether his patients had diabetes or not by sampling their urine. If it had a sweet taste he would diagnose them with diabetes mellitus-honeyed
diabetes. This method of monitoring blood sugars went largely unchanged until the 20th century.
Before the discovery of insulin little could be done for patients suffering from diabetes. Low-calorie diets prolonged their lives but left them weak and near starvation. But in 1921, doctors in Canada treated patients dying of diabetes with insulin and managed to drop high blood sugars to normal levels. Since then, medical breakthroughs have continued to prolong and ease the life of people with diabetes.
In the ’50s, it was discovered that there were two types of diabetes: insulin sensitive
(type I) and insulin insensitive
(type II).
Two thousand years have passed since Aretaeus spoke of diabetes as the mysterious sickness
. It has been a long and arduous process of discovery, as generations of physicians and scientists have added their collective knowledge to finding a cure. It was from this wealth of knowledge that the discovery of insulin emerged in a small laboratory in Canada. Since then, medical innovations have continued to make life easier for people with diabetes.
In the 21st century, diabetes researchers continue to pave the road toward a cure. Today, it is unclear what shape the road will take; perhaps another dramatic discovery like insulin waits around the corner, or possibly researchers will have to be content with the slow grind of progress.
Pathophysiology
An understanding of the pathophysiology of diabetes rests upon knowledge of the basics of carbohydrate metabolism and insulin action. Following the consumption of food, carbohydrates are broken down into glucose molecules in the gut. Glucose is absorbed into the bloodstream elevating blood glucose levels. This rise in glycemia stimulates the secretion of insulin from the beta cells of the pancreas. Insulin is needed by most cells to allow glucose entry. Insulin binds to specific cellular receptors and facilitates the entry of glucose into the cell, which uses glucose for energy. The increased insulin secretion from the pancreas and the subsequent cellular utilization of glucose results in the lowering of blood glucose levels. Lower glucose levels then result in decreased insulin secretion.
If insulin production and secretion are altered by disease, blood glucose dynamics will also change. If insulin production is decreased, glucose entry into cells will be inhibited, resulting in hyperglycemia. The same effect will be seen if insulin is secreted from the pancreas but is not used properly by target cells. If insulin secretion is increased, blood glucose levels may become very low (hypoglycemia) as large amounts of glucose enter tissue cells and little remains in the