Posted: admin on May 23 | diabetes and weight loss
Most of the food we eat is converted into glucose (sugar) in order to be used as energy by our body. Insulin helps glucose entering the cells in the body. When you have diabetes, your body, or can not make enough insulin or can not use its own insulin very well.
The most common forms of diabetes include type 2, type 1 and gestational (occurs during pregnancy). The type 2 affects 90-95% of people with diabetes and usually appears after the age of 40 years. The type 1 accounts for 5-10% of cases of diabetes and occurs most frequently in childhood and adolescence. People with type 1 diabetes need insulin to survive. Gestational diabetes affects between 2.5% and 4% of pregnant women.
People with diabetes may have or not some of the following symptoms: excessive thirst, frequent urinação, weight loss without explanation, extreme hunger, blurry vision, lack of sensitivity in the hands or feet, fatigue applicant, wounds that take longer to heal, skin very dry, or more than the common infections.
If not well managed, diabetes can have great impact on quality of life of the person. Complications, most of which can be prevented, include: heart disease, heart attack, blindness, kidney failure, amputation of feet or legs, damage to nerves and problems in pregnancy.
Who is at risk of developing diabetes ?
Around 1 / 3 of people with diabetes do not know they have the disease. The risk factors for type 1 diabetes include: autoimmune disease, genetic predisposition and environmental factors.
Pre-diabetes is a new term for the condition that people have before being diagnose with diabetes. People who develop diabetes do not go to a quantity of glucose in the blood normal for type 2 diabetes. Almost always go through a phase called impaired glucose tolerance, in which the level of glucose is high but not enough to be classified as diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is more likely to develop in older people, obese, with family history of diabetes, physically inactive or who have had a previous case of gestational diabetes (5-10% of women with gestational diabetes have type 2 diabetes after pregnancy) .
Can Diabetes be prevented?
Studies have found that changes in lifestyle can prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes among adults at risk of developing the disease. Currently there are no known methods for preventing type 1 diabetes, but several clinical studies are in progress.
How is the treatment of diabetes?
People with diabetes should develop a commitment for life with regular medical care and control of diabetes. The treatment of diabetes aims to keep blood glucose levels close to normal. For this reason, people with diabetes must balance three important things: what they eat and drink, how much physical activity do, and that taking drugs (if the doctor receitou tablets for diabetes or insulin). People with diabetes usually learn to check at home their levels of glucose in the blood with a glicosimetro as part of treatment. Also, check the blood pressure is very important for people with high blood pressure and diabetes. The treatment for diabetes should be individualized and take into account medical issues, emotional, cultural and lifestyle.
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