Archive for January, 2011
Diabetes Prevention And Role of Exercises
Weight and risk of type 2 diabetes are clearly linked. For clinical purposes, weight is related to height by a formula known as body mass index or BMI.
How Borderline Diabetes – Prediabetes is Diagnosed?
The term borderline diabetes has now been replaced by the term prediabetes. Both terms indicate that a person has abnormalities in his or her plasma glucose levels that fall short of standard accepted definitions for frank diabetes.
Diabetes Question : Can a person have both type 1 and type 2 diabetes at the same time?
Generally speaking, we do not diagnose both disorders in the same individual. If people have type 1 diabetes, they are completely lacking effective circulating insulin. By definition, this is not the case in people with type 2 diabetes, so having the one disorder effectively rules out the other.
Diabetes Can Run in Families – Diabetes Predisposition
If you have type 1 diabetes, your first-degree relatives (i.e. mother, father, brother, sister, and your children) are about ten times more likely than the general population to get type 1 diabetes.
Can diabetes be cured?
In general, we do not consider that diabetes can be cured once it has been diagnosed. People with type 2 diabetes can reverse the detectable abnormalities of diabetes by lifestyle adjustment without the use of medications.
What are the symptoms of diabetes?
The typical symptoms of diabetes occur as a result of the high levels of glucose in the bloodstream and its passage into the urine and other tissues. These are frequent urination and thirst.
Diabetes Prevalence Between Different Ethnicity and Racial groups
There are significant differences in the hereditary tendency to acquire diabetes. In general Caucasians (non-Hispanic whites) have a lower tendency to develop type 2 diabetes than other ethnic groups.
Difference between type 1 Diabetes and type 2 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is entirely due to an almost complete deficiency of insulin. Type 2 diabetes is due to a combination of our body tissues becoming resistant to the action of insulin and the inability of the pancreas to make enough extra
insulin to overcome it.
