Diabetes: What is it: Causes and treatments
In diabetes the body of patient is unable to produce blood glucose, which is known as blood sugar. Furthermore, There are different types of diabetes which are treated by different methods. For example, There are approx. 34.2 million people with this disease live in U.S.
DIABETES
There are other complication for un-monitored of it which leads to heart diseases and stroke. Moreover, Not every kind starts through bad lifestyles also some are from childhood and some are genetic.
TYPES:
• Type 1:
Similarly, Another name of this type is Juvenile diabetes. In this type of diabetes the patient’s body can’t produce insulin. Insulin did the breaking down of sugar into blood to meet up needs of the body. This type can be diagnosed during very early ages of the patient even from childhood. We can’t treat this type permanently. Furthermore, In this, patient should use artificial insulin for lifetime. Carefully managing this type can help patients to avoid serious conditions.
• TYPE 2:
In this type, patients can’t make enough or effective insulin on their own. It is strongly related to overweight, and the most common type. By taking medication and some changes in diet can help managing this type of diabetes. Moreover, Exercise can also helpful.
Common factors of this type are as follows. for example:
1. Family history or genetically
2. Obesity
3. Age above 45 years
• GESTATIONAL:
This type develops in patients during pregnancy. Furthermore, It makes the patient less sensitive to insulin. There are approx. 2-10% of women ended up into gestational diabetes during their pregnancies. Similarly, Women with overweight having pregnancy increases its risk very high. This can lead to type 2 of diabetes later.
Other risks include. for example:
1. Increased birth weight
2. Risk of type 2 of diabetes in baby
3. Premature birth
• Pre-diabetes:
It is a borderline between diabetic and non-diabetic. In this no proper diagnosis happens. For diagnosis patient should went through this whole process, for example:
1. Tolerance level of blood glucose is 140 to 199 per (mg/dl)
2. A1C test results in 5.7 to 6.4%
3. Fasting glucose level is in middle of 100 to 125 mg/dl
It is most common disease nowadays. We should take this seriously for avoiding serious conditions.
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