Type 1 Diabetes topic Flashcards
What is Type 1 diabetes?
where the pancreas is unable to produce insulin so they need to take insulin daily. can be classified as an auto immune disease possibly genetic or viral. requires to check blood sugar levels daily
better explanation
Absolute insulin deficiency
Absolute insulin deficiency means glucose is not taken up into skeletal muscle & adipose tissue but concentrates in the blood!
This leads to osmotic diuresis aka polyuria
Excess urination then leads to excessive thirst aka polydipsia
Exogenous insulin therapy is required for survival
what are the complications associated with type 1 diabetes?
- Hypoglycemia – can cause coma if severe
- Hyperglycemia – can lead to ketoacidosis
- Cardiovascular disease – hypertension, stroke, MI, cardiomyopathy- macrovascular
- Neuropathy- microvascular
- Nephropathy- microvascular
- Retinopathy- microvascular
- Also – sexual dysfunction, anxiety & depression, foot ulcer (neuropathy-nerve damage), limb amputation, pain/burning/tingling of extremities. They don’t heal quickly
what are the routine health checks
• Essential annual checks advised by NICE:
- HbA1C <48mmol/mol- to see glycemic control is like.
- Blood pressure
- Weight/BMI
- Full lipid profile (cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL)- connected to cardiovascular disease
- Serum creatinine- to find the creatine : albumin ratio to see If the patient is developing nephropathy as the creatine shouldn’t be filtered out
- Urine albumin (albumin creatinine ratio)
- Smoking status
- Retinopathy screen
- Podiatry foot check
what self care requirements is needed for people who have type 1 diabetes?
- Maintain a healthy balanced diet and ‘carbohydrate count’ – measure carb intake with each meal
- Frequently check blood glucose levels (min 5 x day) adjust insulin dose and dietary intake accordingly – connects to microvascular complications1
- Engage in frequent vigorous physical exercise weekly because the better the glucose metabolism is better.
- Attend all regular clinic appointments and screening
what are self care problems with people who have type 1 diabetes?
- Optimal glycemic control (blood glucose 4-11mmol/L, HbA1c <48) is very hard to achieve
- Complex to manage – all patients offered a structured education programme (SEP)
- In adolescents increasing diabetes knowledge doesn’t always result in better self-care2
what does transition mean
- Transition refers to the movement of an adolescent from paediatric to adult diabetes care services, generally around age 17-19
- Paediatric care is holistic and family-centred, adult services are more disease focused
- Parents can feel left out or that they are losing control
- Young person can feel anonymous and not important to the new care team, high risk the patient will lose contact with the care team
what is good transitional care ?
- Paediatric NHS diabetes services are commissioned under a ‘Best Practice Tariff’ for every young patient up to age 19
- The BPT sets out high standards of care, providers will be paid only when they prove their service meets required standards
- Includes requirements for a transitional care policy, where young people will be gradually handed over to adult services in an individualised, collaborative way
how do you manage good transition?
- Care teams need to be flexible- individualised care.
- Provide individualised care, only hand over when the young person has self-care autonomy (up to age 19)
- Involve family members/carers
- Both paed and adult teams should overlap
- Work through as a process, transition is not a one-off event!
what are the impacts in life have control of T1D
- May have to start a new team to get check ups
- Not having family support to keep them in check
- Diet changes – may have to cook for yourself
- Work – they have to monitor their blood glucose level regularly so your routine may change.
- Exercise- they may be prioritising other things so exercise may be abandoned
- Alcohol – how to manage alcohol with diabetes- change in routine
- Having a night out
- Social pressures.
what are structured education programmes
- Planned learning outcomes, series of sessions
- Aims to improve knowledge, skills and confidence in self-care
- Evidence-based – improves glucose control and quality of life
- Topics – pathophysiology, insulin dose and carb counting, glucose monitoring, diet, healthy social life, physical exercise, annual screening, sick day rules etc.
what does the pancreas detect?
detects changes in blood glucose concentration
what does beta cell contain?
- The islets contains Insulin producing beta cells
- Very sensitive to changes in blood glucose concentration
- contains transporters
- attacked by the immune system and are destroyed
what does the beta cells secrete?
- the beta cells secrete insulin which targets all of your cells to try get the blood glucose level back to a healthy range
- with someone who has diabetes the beta cells are destroyed and so the beta cells cant release insulin so you end up with a high glucose blood concentration so need to inject insulin by calculating the carbohydrate unit.
what is the difference between type 1 and type 2?
- type 2 – the islet is disrupted and the insulin has resistance as the beta cells try to be produced
- type 1- there are no visible insulin producing cells. The black dots are the cells of the patient’s immune system. There is an absence of beta cells because the beta cells destroys them by a process of apoptosis. The immune system just targets the beta cells
type 1 diabetes
- Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
- Early/juvenile onset, 5-10% of diabetes
- Autoimmune destruction of b-cells.
- Dependent on insulin injections from an early age
- WHO predicts 35 million by 2025
what do insulin injection do
vial has a dial how much insulin to be taken up and inject it accordingly
what does insulin pumps do ?
still got to tell the pump how much insulin is required so still need to do finger pricking.
what are the symptoms for T1D?
- Weight loss
- Polydipsia (increased thirst)
- Polyuria ( frequent urination)
- Polyphagia ( increased hunger)
- Blurred vision (one or both eyes)- high concentration of glucose so changes osmotic pressure in the ocular
- Dizziness (dehydration, low blood pressure)- from peeing all the time.
- Fatigue ( lack of energy)
- Genital itching ( infections, yeast)
- Slow wound healing (nerve damage, infections)- neuropathy
how do you go about diagnosing someone with type 1 diabetes?
A random plasma glucose concentration of >11.1mmol/l
- Fasting plasma glucose concentration of >7mmol/l . don’t eat after midnight
- Plasma glucose concentrations of >11.1mmol/l 2 hours after an oral glucose tolerance test
diagnosis
- Random BGT- blood is drawn and tested for the level of glucose in the blood
- FGTT – fasting plasma glucose tolerance test – no food or drink 8-12 hours prior to test.
- OGTT- oral glucose tolerance test- no food or drink 8-12 hours prior to test. Drink glucose 75g. blood to be tested 2 hours later. If blood glucose level is high after 2 hours need to go to diabetes clinic
what is HbA1c?
- Because produced no insulin so you have a high HbA1c
- Needs to be measured before getting a pump and gets measured again after getting the pump to see if the insulin is being controlled
describe the islets of someone who has T1D?
- This is an islet for a patient who has type 1 diabetes.
- The black dots are the cells of that patients’ immune system that invade the pancreas and they destroy specifically just the insulin producing cells
- This is an exocrine pancreas which consists of islet of Langerhans, alpha cells, delta cells, somatostatin producing cells .
- Also consists of nerve cells, lymph nodes that is all intermingled in the pancreas but all of those cells are ignored by the immune system except the insulin producing beta cells which are targeted and destroyed
describe the Eisenbarth model?
- Eisenbarth model- understanding the development of type 1 diabetes
- Overtime as you develop type 1 diabetes the beta cell mass decreases.
- The first stage in the development of the disease is a genetic predisposition. There are some alleles and haplotypes that make you more likely to develop type 1 diabetes. It is not from a gene or a particular mutation. The genetic predisposition is a set of genes which makes it more likely that you are at risk of type 1 diabetes
- Also an environmental trigger can lead to the destruction of beta cells that produces insulin
what are HLA molecules?
- HLA Molecules- the vast majority of the genes that puts you at a high risk of developing type 1 diabetes : human leukocyte antigen (HLA)
- HMC molecule that sits on the outsit of the cells and they present peptides to your immune system. When you do genome wide scans and you look at the genes that make you at a higher risk of T1D, all the patients present the MHC molecules.
- The wrong haplotype of the MHC molecules means that you present your immune system with a trigger that causes destruction of your insulin producing cells. The wrong genetic haplotype means you are at a greater risk of developing type 1 diabetes. Most of theses cells are the MHC molecules that sits outside of the cell.