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Diabetes - The Essential Facts - Surgery, Drugs and Microchips (17:12)
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Many people exercise and take medicine in order to delay or treat type 2 diabetes. However in most cases these interventions in one’s lifestyle fails and the person regain weight and retain their increasing blood glucose levels. Controlling one’s appetite seems to be the key, which is one of the aspects we’ll discuss in this presentation. Furthermore we’ll discuss how gastric bypass surgery helps people with diabetes type 2 controlling their appetite and make their diabetes disappear. Finally we’ll discuss how hormones such as GLP-1 can help diabetics’ control their appetite, and lose weight.

Narrator: Richard Steed.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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Lecture
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University of Copenhagen Department of Biomedical Science
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Diabetes - The Essential Facts
Author:
Associate Professor Signe Sørensen Torekov
Dr Tricia Tan
MD Nicolai Wewer Albrechtsen
Professor Jens Juul Holst
Professor Steven Bloom
Date Added:
01/07/2016
Diabetes - The Essential Facts - What Role Does Overweight and Obesity Play ? (17:27)
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This presentation address how being overweight and obese is considered one of the strongest predictors, regarding the development of type 2 diabetes. Almost 85 % of people living with diabetes type 2, are either overweight or obese. This is an important aspect, because globally we have a lot of overweight people, in fact in 2014, one in three adults was overweight and one in eight was obese. But why do the numbers keep growing and what’s causing this epidemic growth of obesity?

Narrator: Richard Steed.

Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
University of Copenhagen Department of Biomedical Science
Provider Set:
Diabetes - The Essential Facts
Author:
Associate Professor Signe Sørensen Torekov
MD Nicolai Wewer Albrechtsen
Professor Arne Astrup
Professor Jens Juul Holst
Professor Steven Bloom
Date Added:
01/07/2016
Diabetes - The Essential Facts - What is Diabetes ? (13:45)
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This presentation provides an introduction to Diabetes.What is diabetes and what happens in the body? You will learn how diabetes is a term used to describe the body’s inability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin and how insulin as a pancreatic hormone functions as a main glucose regulator, that makes sure our glucose levels are balanced. Both high and low blood glucose levels are dangerous. When you have diabetes, the lack of insulin will cause high blood glucose levels, which affects several parts of your body.

Narrator: Richard Steed.

Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
University of Copenhagen Department of Biomedical Science
Provider Set:
Diabetes - The Essential Facts
Author:
Associate Professor Signe Sørensen Torekov
MD Nicolai Wewer Albrechtsen
Professor Jens Juul Holst
Professor Steven Bloom
Date Added:
01/07/2016