Mathematical model for determining diabetes

ISBN-13: 9783659790720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 76 str.

Bernard Jacobs; Emmanuel Frimpong

Opis

A recent study conducted by Diabetes Care in the United States was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people of all ages with diabetes for years 2000 and 2030. According to their studies, Ghana has its diabetics age 25 years and above out of a sample size of 4733 (Wild et al, 2004). This becomes a burden on the country as the situation has the tendency to weaken the workforce of the nation if much awareness is not induced. The aim of this project is to find out how our body's metabolism is linked to the disease by modeling the interaction between insulin and glucose and to use the model to discuss a clinical test for the determining of various forms of diabetes. Diabetes is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels. Various hormones in our body such as insulin, growth hormone, and glucagon control blood glucose levels, epinephrine best known as adrenaline, glucocorticoids and thyroxin.

O autorze

Jacobs, Bernard
Bernard Jacobs completed Mfantsipim High School and continued to the University of Cape Coast for his Bachelor Degree in Mathematics Education. He then continued to persue his Masters Degree program at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.