What is the pathophysiology of diabetes?

jenneil · Dec 1, 2013

Sorry, i mean my ques is not related to your discussion above.

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Dec 1, 2013

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I moved your post to it's own thread for best response. We are happy to help with your questions but we require you show us your work. Tell us what you think the pathophysiology is first for diabetes and we will jump right in.

ParkerBC,MSN,RN, PhD, RN · Dec 1, 2013

There is an organ that is affect by the disease (Diabetes affects the body and multiple organs, but for the sake of simplicity, we will only discuss the organ directly affecting the pathology).

There is a certain type of cell in this organ that produces a much needed hormone to regulate glucose levels:

This is very broad, but it will get you a start. You can drill down to the specifics after finding these answers. Have you tried google? There are a great number of resources out there.

Good luck.

krisiepoo · Dec 1, 2013

It sounds like your question isn't so much about the pathophys of diabetes specifically, but what pathophysiology is?

it's kind of a hard concept (was for me) to grasp at first until I had to explain it for multiple papers... one explanation I found helpful to me is, "functional changes in the body that occur in response to illness or injury"

KelRN215, BSN, RN · Dec 1, 2013

What is diabetes? What processes happen in the body that cause this disease state?

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Dec 2, 2013

I always tell students they will never do well with pathophysiology until they have normal physiology down solid. So: If I give you the definition of physiology, can you then figure out what pathophysiology is?

Physiology:

1.the branch of biology dealing with the normal functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.

2. the organic processes or functions in an organism or in any of its parts.