1. AL Biology
Diabetes
By Chan Yuen Wai, Denise(6) 7B

3. You are going to check out…
What is diabetes?

4. Diabetes mellitus is… Disease
- Improper use/failure to produce insulin

5. What is insulin? Does anyone know… Well..I should have known
The answer…

6. Insulin, as we all have learnt:
- a kind of hormone
- manufactured in pancreas

7. - maintain threshold blood glucose level
- Beta cells being destroyed
- cannot produce insulin

8. You’ve got diabetes! - Secretions of insulin is insufficient
- or malfunctioned
- blood glucose level rises
- excess glucose carried out by urination
You’ve got diabetes!

9. Types of diabetes - Type 1 diabetes - Type 2 diabetes
- autoimmunity of beta cells
- Type 2 diabetes
- not enough insulin produced
- Gestational diabetes
- develops among pregnant women

10. Factors leading to the disease:
1). heredity
2). obesity
3). Ageing
4). Lack exercising

12. INDIA
JAPAN
S. KOREA
SINGAPORE
CHINA
INDONESIA
PHILIPPINES

13. INDIA
JAPAN
S. KOREA
SINGAPORE
CHINA
INDONESIA
PHILIPPINES

14. Complications: - higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer
- eyes, kidneys, nerves and skin related diseases
- erectile dysfunctions

15. Complications (continue):
- this decreases in the no. of potassium(K) inside body, can lead to irregular heartbeats
- death…

16. Though diabetes is still incurable,
There are alternatives to control…
1). Injections of insulin

17. 2). Insulin pumps

18. Help preventing diabetes…
- Exercise regularly
- healthy eating
- body check annually

19. ¬*Thank you*¬