Everyone with diabetes is at risk of losing vision. As diabetes becomes more prevalent so do associated complications. To keep your vision sharp, you’ll want to take great care of your health to avoid problems related to diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy happens as a direct result of chronic hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose), causing Read more…
Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease. Almost a third of people with diabetes develop diabetic nephropathy or Kidney disorder. A proper & immediate care is must to control the adverse effect of it on the body. Based on data from research, up to 40% of people with diabetes will develop Read more…
High glucose levels can cause damage to the nerves throughout the body. Neuropathy is a frequently encountered complication of diabetes. Nerve damage can be prominent and it allows injuries to go unnoticed, leading to ulceration, serious infections and in some case amputations. Diabetic neuropathy is an impairment of regular activities of the nerves throughout Read more…
Diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are both global problems. They are currently among the leading causes of mortality worldwide, particularly affecting populations in low- and middle-income populations. Their negative effects are increasing by globalization, rapid unplanned urbanization and increasingly unhealthy lifestyles. People with diabetes are two to three times more at risk to have cardiovascular Read more…
People with diabetes require proper & effective medicines to control their blood glucose levels, blood pressure and blood lipids. Regular supply of insulin is also necessary for many diabetic patients. Unfortunately, the quality of care for people with diabetes differs widely. In many high-income people with diabetes have access to Read more…
As with all chronic diseases, the management of diabetes involves far more than just prescribing medication to treat hyperglycaemia or to combat one of diabetes’ many complications. Good diabetes management requires an integrated effort of both patient and care-giver to handle the disease in such a way that the impact Read more…
Acute untreated hyperglycaemia will ultimately result in death, either through hyperosmolar coma or through diabetic keto-acidosis. Thus, when insulin became available in 1921, two things about the life of those with diabetes drastically altered. The good news was that their life-expectancy dramatically increased. The bad news was that living with Read more…
Diabetes is a syndrome – literally a “running together” of associated conditions. Type 1 diabetes associates with a number of autoimmune disorders, and these are considered in the section on type 1 diabetes. This section is mainly devoted to a number of disorders that occur in association with type 2 Read more…
Type 1 diabetes typically presents in childhood or early adult life. It can be distinguished from type 2 diabetes by the presence of immune and genetic markers of immune-mediated disease, and delayed diagnosis may result in diabetic ketoacidosis. Immunological changes appear many years before the clinical onset of diabetes, and Read more…
Metabolism literally means transformation but has become a general term that encompasses all chemical processes that occur in the living body; processes that are the essence of life. These include processes that build up tissues (anabolism) and that make tissues function, which generally cost energy, and processes that degrade tissues Read more…