KINE 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gestational Diabetes, Immune Disorder, Ghrelin

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2 Dec 2016
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Obesogenic: environments that promote increased food intake, unhealthy food, and physical inactivity. Overweight: having body weight more than 10% above healthy levels. Obesity: having body weight more than 20% above healthy levels. Almost 30% of the world"s population are overweight. 29 million people have diabetes, which is associated with being overweight and obese. Definition: disease characterized by a persistently high level of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Fastest growing chronic disease in american history. Kills more americans each year than breast cancer and aids combined. Hyperglycemia: high blood glucose levels seen in diabetes. Individual"s own immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-making cells in the pancreas. Daily insulin injections (insulin infusion) required for survival. Patients must monitor diet / exercise levels. Accounts for 95% of all diabetes cases. Pancreas does not make sufficient insulin or body cells are resistant to insulin"s effects. Cluster of six conditions linked to overweight and obesity.

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