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Diabetes
Title: Diabetes
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Details: Words: 1475 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Diabetes
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: …showed first 75 words of 1475 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1475 total…have different 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.
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