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Published on: 2009-12-08
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Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious and widespread diseases today. But the general perception of diabetes is quite different.At the beginning of the 20th century, diabetes sufferers mostly tended to be middle-aged and overweight, and could live tolerably well with the disease for a couple of decades, but when it occasionally struck younger people, it could be fatal within a few months. The development of insulin in the early 1920s dramatically changed things for these younger patients. But that story of the success of modern medicine has tended to dominate public perception, so that diabetes is regarded as a relatively minor illness. Sadly, that is far from the case, and diabetes can produce complications affecting many different organs.Robert Tattersall, a leading authority on diabetes, describes the story of the disease from the ancient writings of Galen and Avicenna to the recognition of sugar in the urine of diabetics in the 18th century, the identification of pancreatic diabetes in 1889, the discovery of insulin in the early 20th century, the ensuing optimism, and the subsequent despair as the complexity of this now chronic illness among its increasing number of young patients became apparent. Yet new drugs are being developed, as well as new approaches to management that give hope for the future.Diabetes affects many of us directly or indirectly through friends and relatives. This book gives an authoritative and engaging account of the long history and changing perceptions of a disease that now dominates the concerns of health professionals in the developed world.Diabetes: the biography is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases, edited by William and Helen Bynum. In each individual volume an expert historian or clinician tells the story of a particular disease or condition throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in the meaning of the name of the disease itself. Real Stories - Tips From Former Smokers Get Email Updates. To receive email updates about the Tips From Former Smokers campaign enter your email address: Betty Ford Biography :: National First Ladies' Library First Lady Biography: Betty Ford ELIZABETH ANN BETTY* BLOOMER WARREN FORD Birth: 8 April 1918 Chicago Illinois Born in Lake View Hospital Betty Ford spent the first ... Wrestling Book Dead Wrestlers List - Wrestler Biographies This is the most complete dead wrestlers list on the Internet. In it you will find wrestlers who have died in the last ten years twenty years and going all the way ... Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - General Topics ... The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe ... In March of 1847 Dr. Valentine Mott a famous New York doctor in his day agreed with the diagnosis of Mrs. Shew a ... Lee Iacocca Biography - Notable Biographies Lido Anthony Iacocca was born October 15 1924 in Allentown Pennsylvania the son of Italian immigrants Nicola and Antoinette. Iacocca grew up in comfortable ... About.com Trending in Money Are You Making the Most of Your Health Savings Account? 10 Steps for Finding Your New Job; 7 Lifestyle Changes to Make You a Better Entrepreneur The Political Graveyard The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography (or The Web Site that Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried) Created and maintained by ... Biographies of Board Members and Corporate Auditors Our ... February 2006 Vice President Cardiovascular Disease Franchise Integrator (Head Cardiovascular Early Development & Translational Medicine) Merck & Co. Growing Up Again: Life Loves and Oh Yeah Diabetes ... Excerpt from Growing Up Again: Each person who has diabetes struggles to come to terms with it and experiences the basic challenges of the disease in a uniquely ... Biology for Kids: Infectious Disease - Ducksters What is an infectious disease? An infectious disease is any disease caused by a pathogen (germ) such as a virus bacteria parasite or fungus.
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