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Diabetes
Date Submitted: 12/14/2004 15:37:49
Length: 5 pages (1373 words)
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Nearly 16 million people in the United States--nearly one out of every 17 people--have diabetes. And about 1,800 new cases are diagnosed each day. <Tab/>Technically, this disease is known as "diabetes mellitus," diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey--diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. <Tab/>There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and …
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…risks. If you have the rare form called maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), your child has almost a 1-in-2 chance of getting it, too. Bibliography Latest Diabetes News and Information. NetHealth Inc. 1998 <http://www.diabetes.com/>. American Diabetes Association. American Diabetes Association. 1998 <http://www.diabetes.org/>. "Diabetes Mellitus" Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopidia. Vers. 96. 1993-1995. This paper is the property of NetEssays.Net Copyright © 1999-2004
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