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Delta Modern Language Schools Diabetes disease
Science department
Grade 6
1st term 2024- 2025
The function of endocrine system is to produce hormones that regulate
vital processes in the body.
Pnacrease • Its One of the organs of endocrine system that
produces insulin hormone
Insulin • regulates the amount of sugar that the body
hormone can use for energy
•Diabetes disease is one of the disorders of the endocrine system.
Sugar stays in the blood and casuses many problems
So, these people must monitor the level of sugar in their blood and not allow it to
get too low or too high.
How to use technology to treat diabetes?
❶Diabetics must give themselves regular shots (doses) of insulin.
❷An insulin pump is a device attached to the body to help
diabetics control the blood sugar levels with automatic
injections of insulin.
Researchers are now working to develop an artificial
pancreas, so people infected with diabetes don't need the
external pump.
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