[ANSWER]Pathophysiology of the Stress Response and Inflammatory Response: A Case Study of a Patient with Type 2 Diabetes

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Patient Background  

Pathophysiology of the Stress Response: John (not his real name) is a 52-year-old male patient with T2D. The patient has been recently hospitalized as a result of unstable blood glucose levels. He has been placed on insulin therapy alongside fluid and electrolyte replacement to normalize his blood glucose.  

Stress and Inflammation

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General Adaptation Syndrome

Hans Selye’s general adaptation syndrome (GAS) is the most renowned theoretical explanation of the physiological processes involved in the body’s response to stress. According to GAS theory, the body’s response to stress involves three stages: alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion (Crevecoeur, 2016).

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Stage 1: Alarm Reaction When the body experiences a stressful event, which may be physiological, psychological or environmental in nature, homeostasis is disturbed (Seiler et al., 2020). To fight the stress, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activates the fight-or-flight response, causing the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to…[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 1427 WORDS][Pathophysiology of the Stress]

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