PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

Predisposing Factors: Precipitating Factors:

Age Inactivity

Family History Weight

Race/Ethnicity Diet

Gestational Diabetes Polycystic ovary

Acanthosis Nigricans syndrome

Abnormal cholesterol
and triglyceride levels

 Fatty liver
Insulin resistance  Arteriosclerosis
 Skin tags

Impaired glucose utilization

Hyperinsulinemia Increased insulin demand

B cell dysfunction

Decrease secretion of insulin  Polydipsia

 Polyuria

Cell starvation Polyphagia

 Blurred vision Hyperglycemia

 Fatigue
 Headache
 B – cell exhaustion Hypertension

If left untreated
B – cell death and end of
insulin production

 Radiating numbness
 Sharp pain
Neuropathy (nerve
damage)  Extreme sensitivity
to touch

Loss of Diabetic coma
conciousness

Permanent brain damage

Death

LEGEND
- Disease process

- Client’s manifestations

- Clinical manifestations

- Result to disease procress

- If left untreated

- Precipitating factors evident on my patient

- Predisposing factors evident on my patient