23 Apr 201318:19
i would like to know more information about how to enroll on living with diabetes.
The home of free learning
from The Open University
from The Open University
Alternatively you can skip the navigation by pressing 'Enter'.
Living with diabetes
Hide summary
This unit introduces the parts of the body and processes involved in...
This unit introduces the parts of the body and processes involved in the development of diabetes.
When you have completed this unit you should be able to:
- define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the terms printed in bold in the text.
- explain how diabetes is diagnosed;
- describe the different types of diabetes and their possible causes;
- describe some of the structures and chemical changes involved in glucose regulation within the body;
- discuss the factors that make people prone to developing diabetes, including genetic aspects.
- Duration: 5 hours
- Published on: Thursday 12th May 2011
- Level: Introductory
- Posted under: Biology
Living with diabetes
Introduction
This unit introduces parts of the body and processes involved in the development of diabetes.
This unit is from our archive and is an adapted extract from Diabetes care (SK120) which is no longer taught by The Open University. If you want to study formally with us, you may wish to explore other courses we offer in this subject area [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .
Other pages You might like
Try: Plants and people
What techniques are used to keep crops safe from insects? What happens to tomatoes when...
Try: Introduction to histology
This unit provides an introduction to histology, the study of tissues. It also describes...
Study: Practical science: biology and health
Study a range of practical activities in biology and health science – from fundamental...
Try: DNA, RNA and protein formation
How is genetic information stored in cells, and how is the information accessed and used?...
Try: Hearing
Hearing is a familiar and important human sense that is a topic naturally of interest to...
Try: Gene manipulation in plants
Genetic manipulation of crops is an issue of great current interest and controversy. This...
Try: Microbes – friend or foe?
Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital...
Try: Health and safety in the laboratory and...
Health, safety and risk assessment are of paramount importance both in the laboratory and...
Try: Inheritance of characters
Genes are units of inheritance that contribute to a person’s behaviour and health. In...
Try: Intracellular transport
This unit explains the function of the cytoskeleton and its role in controlling transport...
Try: What do genes do?
This unit explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of...
Try: Addiction and neural ageing
This unit looks at two topics that are of immense worldwide social, economic, ethical,...
Comments
24 Apr 201309:02
Hi Muhubo,
You don't need to enrol on the course, the system recognizes your log in and will automatically track your progress. If you look under the 'My OpenLearn' tab (once you have signed in) you will see the course listed and your progress.
Hope this helps, many thanks.
OpenLearn Moderator
Copyright & revisions
No significant updates yet
Copyright information
- Creative-Commons: The Open University is proud to release this free course under a Creative Commons licence. However, any third-party materials featured within it are used with permission and are not ours to give away. These materials are not subject to the Creative Commons licence. See terms and conditions. Full details can be found in the Acknowledgements section.
Feeds
If you enjoyed this, why not follow a feed to find out when we have new things like it? Choose an RSS feed from the list below. (Don't know what to do with RSS feeds?)
Remember, you can also make your own, personal feed by combining tags from around OpenLearn.
Alternative Formats
Tags, Ratings and Social Bookmarking
SK120_2
About this site
Views
Votes
Comments
Tags
- climate change (373)
- business (277)
- diaries (194)
- bottom line (169)
- food (168)
- Rough Science (162)
- BBC Two (145)
- internet (145)
- BBC Radio 4 (140)
- BBC (133)
- Scotland (121)
- points for debate (120)
- listings (120)
- Bang goes the Theory (116)
- children (116)
- Creative Climate (116)
- English Civil War (115)
- astronomy (108)
- Thinking Allowed (105)
- religion (98)
- marketing (94)
- 20th century (94)
- Charles I (93)
- communication (92)
- evolution (91)
- sustainability (89)
- research (88)
- architecture (85)
- energy (83)
- Charles Darwin (78)
OpenLearn Links
