Exploring Five Scholarly Resources on Diabetes

Select Five Resources That You Plan To Use To Complete Your Research Project Of Each Resource, And Explain Why Each Resource Is a Valid And Reliable Source For Your Project. 

Why Type 1 Diabetes Is More Severe Than Type 11 Diabetes And Also Requires Multiple Daily Insulin Unlike Type 11 Where The Patient Only Requires Diet Management And Few Drugs If Necessary.

The paper aims for exploring five scholarly resources on the topic of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus or diabetes is a disease condition that involves a high level of glucose in the blood. There are various types of diabetes. The following section will be focused on establishing diabetes as a fatal condition and discussing the reason for the type-I diabetes to be more severe than the type-II, the requirement of daily insulin administration in the type-I diabetic patients and finally the other forms of diabetes, which result from the mutation in some genes.

The first scholarly study focused on exploring the possibility that the diabetes might contribute for the mortality associated with other chronic disease conditions, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, respiratory diseases and various others. The study found that the diabetic individuals are more prone to developing those diseases conditions and thus the risk of mortality is more evident in them (Li et al., 2019).

The second resource is a scholarly study that reviews the type-I diabetes disease condition from a clinical perspective, which focuses on the pathophysiology and the management of the disease along with the diagnosis. The study described the type-I diabetes disease condition to be an autoimmune disease condition, which results from the destruction of the pancreatic beta-cells by the T-cells of the immune system. The event leads to lowered insulin production in the body as the pancreatic beta-cells are the cells that are responsible for the insulin production in the body. The risk assessment for the type-1 diabetes is carried out by checking the presence of the characteristic autoantibodies in an individual. The treatment method for this disease condition involve regular insulin administration (Kahanovitz, Sluss & Russell, 2017).

The third scholarly resource describes disease management strategies for the patients, who are newly diagnosed with type-II diabetes. The study recognised the exercise to be the most important component along with proper diet and behavioural improvement for this disease management. The type-II diabetes result from the decreased insulin sensitivity in the body. The components mentioned above reverses the factors responsible for the decreased insulin sensitivity and thus the disease condition can be easily managed (Kirwan, Sacks & Nieuwoudt, 2017).

Conclusion

The fourth study examined the co-morbidities and complications, which were associated with type-I and type-II diabetes in the teenagers and young adults. The study was focused on the individuals who were diagnosed during their childhood or adolescent stage of life. The clinical outcomes like retinopathy, neuropathy, hypertension, diabetic kidney disease and arterial stiffness were examined in this study. The findings of this study suggested that the type-I diabetic condition is less associated with the complications and comorbidities compared to the type-II diabetic condition (Dabelea et al., 2017).

The fifth study focuses on discussing different types of diabetes mellitus that have been identified. Excluding the type-I and type-II there are many other forms of diabetes, such as Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM), neonatal diabetes and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). The GDM is detected in the women during pregnancy. Both neonatal diabetes and MODY result from some genetic defects. The defaults include mutant insulin production, mutations at the insulin receptors, inability of the body to convert proinsulin into insulin and various others (Solis-Herrera et al., 2018).

All the studies discussed before can be considered to be valid, since they were published within last five years of time. The relevance of the studies can be established from the fact that all the articles were published in the peer reviewed journals.

Conclusion

The first study did not focus on a specific age group and thus according to it, diabetes can be held responsible for the increased mortality in the people.

From next two scholarly articles it can be established that the severity of the type-I diabetes relies on the fact that it is an autoimmune disorder. The progression of this disease condition cannot be stopped and thus the insulin supply of the body will be diminished continuously. Type-II diabetes on the other hand result from the decreased insulin sensitivity in the body. Thus it can be managed without supplying insulin to the body on a regular basis unlike the type-I diabetes, where the insulin level cannot be improved by some behavioural change.

It can be decided from the fourth scholarly study that even though the disease management is more complicated for the type-I diabetic condition, it is less associated with different co-morbidities and complications.

Finally, from the fifth article it can be decided that a single mutation in the gene can have severe effects on the body, which might result into different diabetic condition.

References

Dabelea, D., Stafford, J. M., Mayer-Davis, E. J., D’Agostino, R., Dolan, L., Imperatore, G., ... & Black, M. H. (2017). Association of type 1 diabetes vs type 2 diabetes diagnosed during childhood and adolescence with complications during teenage years and young adulthood. Jama, 317(8), 825-835.

Kahanovitz, L., Sluss, P. M., & Russell, S. J. (2017). Type 1 diabetes–a clinical perspective. Point of care, 16(1), 37.

Kirwan, J. P., Sacks, J., & Nieuwoudt, S. (2017). The essential role of exercise in the management of type 2 diabetes. Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, 84(7 Suppl 1), S15.

Li, S., Wang, J., Zhang, B., Li, X., & Liu, Y. (2019). Diabetes mellitus and cause-specific mortality: a population-based study. Diabetes & metabolism journal, 43(3), 319-341.

Solis-Herrera, C., Triplitt, C., Reasner, C., DeFronzo, R. A., & Cersosimo, E. (2018). Classification of diabetes mellitus. In Endotext [Internet]. MDText. com, Inc..