Diabetes is very prevalent in today's society. It is estimated that about 10% of the population currently suffers from this disease and if the problem continues at current rates, 1 out of 3 babies born after 2000 will develop this disease sooner or later. Not only is this condition life-threatening, but the cost of this disease is huge. The total costs of diabetes in the U.S. was $174 billion in 2007. And this is only for the diagnosed cases. If you take under consideration the...
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Most people don't know that diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. If you are diabetic you are 2-4 times more likely to die of heart disease, compared to someone who is not a diabetic.
Diabetes is caused due the absence of insulin production or the inability of the cells to absorb and use the insulin that is produced. This condition is known as "insulin resistance".
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The modern lifestyle that includes poor dietary choices and lack of exercise contributes to the occurrence of this disease.
Apart from the millions of people who are already aware of the fact that they suffer from diabetes, there are many others who have this disease and don't know about it. Many more suffer from pre-diabetes, which is a state of high blood glucose that precedes diabetes.
The ideal management of the disease would be to actually prevent it from happening in the first place. In the past decades, there have been...
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The term diabetes refers to a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycaemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion. Diabetes may be manifested with specific symptoms such as excessive thirst, excessive urination, blurred vision and weight loss. In its more severe forms it may lead to ketoacidosis and coma and in the absence of an effective treatment, even death. Often the symptoms are not too intense or they may even be absent and therefore, hyperglycemia can cause pathological and functional damage, before the diagnosis of the disease.
Complications of diabetes:
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Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body produces no insulin or does not use it properly. Consequently, blood sugar is not transported into the cells to be used as fuel, but instead it remains in the bloodstream. This leads to high blood sugar, which can damage vital organs like the kidneys, the eyes and the blood vessels.
Type 1 diabetes begins...
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