Blood Glucose testing is commonly done to diagnose and manage diabetes. Maintaining a low, even level of blood sugars is critical to the management of this condition and will help prevent debilitating side-effects.
1.5 million Canadians have diabetes - and nearly one out of three doesn't even know it! Take this test to see if you are at risk for having diabetes. Diabetes is more common in African- Canadians, Latinos, Natives, and Asian Canadians.
The two types are critically different, however, overall it can be said that diabetes is a condition where people don't produce insulin or their cells don't respond properly to insulin.
The two types are critically different, however, overall it can be said that diabetes is a condition where people don't produce insulin or their cells don't respond properly to insulin.
Scientists are hard at work looking for ways people with diabetes can measure their blood sugar without the painful and scarring jabs now neccesary for blood collection.
Earlydetection and treatment of eye problems can save your sight. You may have heard that diabetes causes eye problems and may lead to blindness. People with diabetes do have a higher risk of blindness than people without diabetes.
This is the definitive table for both the glycemic index and the glycemic load. We are able to reproduce it here courtesy of the author, Professor Jennie-Brand Miller of the University of Sydney.
Blood Glucose testing is commonly done to diagnose and manage diabetes. Maintaining a low, even level of blood sugars is critical to the management of this condition and will help prevent debilitating side-effects.
People with diabetes have extra reason to be mindful of heart and blood vessel disease. Diabetes carries an increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and complications related to poor circulation.
In spite of being on their feet four or more hours each day, most people don't give their feet a second thought until they begin to hurt.
Hyperglycemia is a major cause of many of the complications that happen to people who have diabetes. For this reason, it's important to know what hyperglycemia is, what its symptoms are, and how to treat it.
Hypoglycemia can happen even during those times when you're doing all you can to control your diabetes. So, although many times you can't prevent it from happening, hypoglycemia can be treated before it gets worse.
New Cochrane review indicates that inhaled insulin is just as effective as injected insulin and is preferred by patients.
Insulin Puffers as Effective as Injections: Cochrane Review
Drug therapies for type 2 diabetes are an important part of treatment. Take the time to learn as much as possible about all the medications you are taking to help avoid serious side effects.
One of the most common complications of diabetes is diabetic neuropathy. Neuropathy means damage to the nerves that run throughout the body, connecting the spinal cord to muscles, skin, blood vessels, and other organs.
Although a cure is not yet available for diabetic neuropathy, intensive glucose control and pain management are the most effective treatments for slowing disease progression and improving quality of life.
Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "pre-diabetes" -- blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
Anyone diagnosed with prediabetes is doing themselves a tremendous favour by learning as much as they can about this condition and how to reverse it.
Diabetes can cause a variety of long-term complications involving various parts of the body. In the North America diabetes is the leading cause of adult blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic, lower extremity amputation.
Diabetes can affect every part of the body, including the skin. As many as a third of people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes at some time in their lives.
Ten years ago, you probably hadn’t heard of the glycohemoglobin test. Today, it seems everybody’s talking about it. (You’ve probably heard of the most common one—the HbA1C.)
Having diabetes means you have to cope with special problems. Hypoglycemia (hi-po-gli-SEE-me-ah), or low blood sugar, is one of those problems. Hypoglycemia is often called an insulin reaction, or insulin shock.
Reducing the incidence of complications and possibly saving your own life. How's that for a start?
Although a cure is not yet available for diabetic neuropathy, intensive glucose control and pain management are the most effective treatments for slowing disease progression and improving quality of life.
