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Diabetes Explained 

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Overview

Gain a solid understanding of diabetes as you learn to identify the types, risk factors, and signs of this chronic condition.

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Diabetes Explained
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Skills you will learn
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  • On this three-week course, you?ll develop a strong understanding of diabetes to apply to your own life or to anyone you know living with the condition
  • Learning from the experts at UCOL (Universal College of Learning), you?ll gain the knowledge to improve your own health and wellbeing and those living with diabetes
  • You?ll start by exploring the difference between type 1 and 2 diabetes as well as gestational diabetes to enhance your understanding of the conditions
  • To develop your knowledge, you?ll then investigate diabetes on a global scale and within your own country to understand how it affects different people
  • Next, you?ll learn more about the human body and food to understand the role sugar plays in the progression of diabetes
  • By the end of the course, you?ll have the in-depth knowledge to improve your own health and wellbeing, or anyone you know living with diabetes
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Diabetes Explained
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Curriculum

What is Diabetes?

Welcome to the Course

An Introduction

Prediabetes

Types of Diabetes

Why is it Important to Understand Diabetes?

What Does the World Say?

End of Week One

Testing and Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

Testing for Diabetes

Changeable Risk Factors

Non-changeable Risk Factors

End of Week Two

Sugar and the Complications of Diabetes

Sugar

The Human Body

Tackling the Global Crisis

End of week three

Next Steps

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