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Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism—the way the body uses
digested food for growth and energy.
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Diabetes is widely recognized as one of the leading causes
of death and disability in the United States.
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Diabetes is associated with long-term complications that
affect almost every part of the body.
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Diabetes is the number one cause of acquired blindness.
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Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness
among adults ages 20 to 74.
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Diabetes is often detected when a person suffers a problem
that is frequently caused by diabetes, such as a heart
attack, stroke, neuropathy, poor wound healing or a foot
ulcer, certain eye problems, certain fungal infections, or
delivering a baby with macrosomia or hypoglycemia.
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Diabetes is a disorder that affects the way your body uses
food for energy.
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Diabetes is a disease that affects how the
body uses glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood.
Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects over 150
million people in the world today.
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Diabetes is the seventh
leading cause of death.
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Diabetes is a serious disease which
can lead to heart problems, strokes, loss of limbs due to
poor circulation, and death.
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Diabetes is associated with a
slower rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease.
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Diabetes is a condition where sufficient amounts
of insulin are either not produced or the body is unable to
use the insulin that is produced.
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Diabetes is also the cause
or a contributing factor in nearly 4,000 deaths and 67,000
hospitalizations per year.
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Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune
disease.
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Diabetes is growing fastest in low- and
middle-income countries.
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Diabetes is the largest cause of
kidney failure in developed countries and is responsible for
huge dialysis costs.
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The most common form of diabetes is
type 2 diabetes. This form of diabetes is most often
associated with older age, obesity, family history of
diabetes, previous history of gestational diabetes, physical
inactivity, and certain ethnicities.
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Type 2 diabetes is
increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents,
especially among African American, Mexican American, and
Pacific Islander youth.
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Diabetes is the fifth deadliest
disease in the United States.
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When type 2 diabetes is
diagnosed, the pancreas is usually producing enough insulin,
but for unknown reasons the body cannot use the insulin
effectively, a condition called insulin resistance.
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Gestational diabetes is caused by the hormones of pregnancy
or a shortage of insulin.
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Gestational diabetes is diagnosed
based on blood glucose levels measured during the OGTT.
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Pre-diabetes is also called impaired fasting glucose (IFG)
or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), depending on the test
used to diagnose it.
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Pre-diabetes is becoming more common in
the United States. However, diabetes is likely to be
underreported as the underlying cause of death on death
certificates.
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Type 2 diabetes is more common in older
people, especially in people who are overweight, and occurs
more often in African Americans, American Indians, some
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander
Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos.
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Managing diabetes is more
than keeping blood glucose levels under control—it is also
important to manage blood pressure and cholesterol levels
through healthy eating, physical activity, and the use of
medications, if needed.
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Pre-diabetes is a condition in which
blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high
enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. But the most serious
problem caused by diabetes is heart disease.
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For reasons that are
not yet clear, diabetes is increasing in our population to
the point where public health authorities are calling
diabetes an "epidemic" that requires urgent attention.
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"Diabetes is bad, smoking is bad, doing both together is
worse.
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Type 1
diabetes is generally diagnosed in children, teenagers, or
young adults.
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Assessing how well Diabetes is Controlled:
blood sugars and glyco-hemoglobin.
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There are two common ways
that physicians assess how well diabetes is controlled: [1]
Frequent measurements of blood glucose, and [2] measurement
of glycohemoglobin (A1c). Another method to monitor the
control of blood sugar in people with diabetes is through a
blood test called hemoglobin A1c or glycohemoglobin (or
glycosylated hemoglobin).
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A recent survey by the American
Optometric Association (AOA), the American Eye-Q™, revealed
that while more than 60 percent of adults know that diabetes
is detectable through a comprehensive eye exam, only 38
percent of adults who do not wear glasses or contacts have
been to an eye doctor in the last two years.
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Type 1 diabetes
is less common in people who were breastfed and in those who
first ate solid foods at later ages. What happens is that a
family history of type 2 diabetes is one of the strongest
risk factors for getting the disease but it only seems to
matter in people living a Western lifestyle.
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Type 2 diabetes
is common in people with these habits. Gestational diabetes
is more of a puzzle. If you have this syndrome, your child's
risk of getting the syndrome including type 1 diabetes is 1
in 2.
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In general, if you have type 2 diabetes, the risk of your
child getting diabetes is 1 in 7 if you were diagnosed
before age 50 and 1 in 13 if you were diagnosed after age
50. Some scientists believe that a child's risk is greater
when the parent with type 2 diabetes is the mother.
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Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young
adults, and was previously known as juvenile diabetes. Adequate
treatment of diabetes is thus important, as well as blood
pressure control and lifestyle factors such as smoking cesation and maintaining a healthy body weight.
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The majority
of type 1 diabetes is of the immune-mediated nature, where
beta cell loss is a T-cell mediated autoimmune attack.
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Type 2 diabetes is the most common type.
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Gestational
diabetes is fully treatable but requires careful medical
supervision throughout the pregnancy. All of these symptoms
except weight loss can also manifest in type 2 diabetes in
patients whose diabetes is poorly controlled, although
unexplained weight loss may be experienced at the onset of
the disease.
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Type 2 diabetes is determined primarily by
lifestyle factors and genes.
