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TREATMENT

The immediate objectives are to treat diabetic ketoacidosis and high blood glucose levels. Due to the sudden onset and severity of symptoms in type 1 diabetes, it is possible that people who have just received the diagnosis need to stay in the hospital.

The long-term goals of treatment are:

• Prolong life
• Reduce symptoms
• Prevent diabetes-related complications such as blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and limb amputation. Read the rest of this entry »

Tests and Examinations

You can use a original analysis of urine for glucose and ketones from the breakdown of fats. However, a urine test alone does not diagnose diabetes.

The following blood tests used to diagnose diabetes:

• fasting blood glucose, diabetes is diagnosed if the result is greater than 126 mg/dL on two occasions. Levels between 100 and 126 mg/dL is called impaired fasting glucose or prediabetes. These levels are considered risk factors for type 2 diabetes and its complications. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes affects more than 20 million Americans and about 40 million have prediabetes (early type 2 diabetes).

There are many risk factors that predispose to type 2 diabetes, including:

• Age over 45
• A parent or sibling with diabetes
• Gestational diabetes or delivering a baby weighing more than 4 kg (9 lb)
• Heart
• High blood cholesterol
• Not getting enough exercise
• Obesity
• Not getting enough exercise
• Polycystic ovarian ováricaPoliquistosis (female)
• Previous impaired glucose tolerance
• Some ethnic groups (particularly African Americans, American native peoples, Asians, Pacific Islanders and Hispanics) Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is a chronic (lifelong) characterized by high levels of sugar sangre.

CAUSES

Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar. Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin, resistance to it, or both.

To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process by which food is broken down and used by the body for energy. Several things happen when food is digested:

• A sugar called glucose, which is a source of energy for the body, enters the bloodstream.

• An organ called the pancreas makes insulin, whose role is to move glucose from the bloodstream into muscle, fat and liver cells, which can be used as energy. Read the rest of this entry »

The diabetes is a disease that can be controlled perfectly. One of the ways is through a good diet to keep the level of blood glucose under control and assure us a better quality of life.

What we must keep in mind about the diabetes diet ? First, it must respect the four daily meals and portion control intake. With the main slogan that we should avoid sweets, we present the list of foods in the diet for diabetics. Read the rest of this entry »

The blood circulation is an important property of the human body works. If you’d like all your body organs are working properly, then a good circulation is necessary. If it is not as good as it should can cause several health problems such as asthma, blood pressure, anemia and diabetes.

So after the jump will give you all the options you have for increasing blood circulation and therefore good health.

There are many ways but one important thing is to exercise , which does not always mean going to the gym, you may be walking every day, or any aerobic exercise, going to yoga , Pilates, sex, whatever you want. Read the rest of this entry »

The medicine is going through a path that is focusing on treating Alzheimer’s in a way that is unprecedented. The effects and characteristics of this disease have been reason enough for some researchers to consider a variant of diabetes, which could identify possible treatments available treatments we know to treat diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »

Already identified 38 genes associated with type 2 diabetes, after the discovery of 12 more by an international consortium of scientists led by Professor Mark McCarthy of the University of Oxford.

To find these 12 new genes related to type 2 diabetes, which serve to detect early susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and to find new drugs, we compared the DNA of 8,000 people with type 2 diabetes with 40,000 people without the disease. Once found genetic variations, they were re-buy with 34,000 people with diabetes and more than 60,000 controls. Read the rest of this entry »

The sound of the sea in Salvador de Bahia is charming and invites two possible outcomes: thinking about anything or think about everything. In the second are those attending the Diabetes Summit Latin America, which began a few days ago and is expected as a great calling attention to the scourge of this chronic disease that affects only in Argentina two and a half million people.

Pierre Lefèbvre, director of the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) is the great host of this series of meetings with doctors, epidemiologists and health experts from 34 countries. Flowing hair, his back to the sea that speaks, is categorical: “The status of diabetes in the world is worrying is like a tsunami, and the wave has not reached the top.” Interviewed by Clarín, Lefèbvre account the reasons for this development is not unexpected, but dangerous, especially for countries like ours, where eating habits and physical activity (two risk factors) are not the healthiest. Read the rest of this entry »

Late last year, the Legislature of Buenos Aires told Zak versus Mutants health interest, which opens the doors of the classrooms. “It is the first interactive game on diabetes in the world. When it begins Zak account that has diabetes and his doctor told him to do physical activity, “said Brunoldy. The game explains what diabetes is, improves integration and to encourages healthy eating. “ Read the rest of this entry »