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Test For Gestational Diabetes

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

What to Know, A majority of women who underwent a test for gestational diabetes between weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy or earlier if you are at risk.

If you have gestational diabetes, you may be able to control it through diet and exercise. Your doctor may recommend that controls the level of blood sugar regularly at home. You can do it with a special needle test meter or blood sugar. Some women with gestational diabetes need insulin injections.

Gestational diabetes usually disappears after delivery, but women who develop it are at risk of developing it again in a future pregnancy, or diabetes in the future. Exercising, eating a diet low in sugar and losing weight can help lower your risk of developing diabetes in the future

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Regulation of Glucose

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

In people who are not diabetic:

  • the fasting and before meals is between 0.70 and 0.90 g / l
  • blood sugar after meals is below 1.50 g / l.

This regulation of blood glucose is the result of insulin action on all body cells and the liver and muscles that have a particular role. Having become acquainted with each actor, we will consider the role of each.

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Blood Glucose

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Diabetes type 1 is not a problem of testing for blood glucose rises abruptly and there are obvious symptoms.

This is by no cons cases of type 2 diabetes in which diabetes is often diagnosed very late due to the absence of symptoms.

It is estimated that there are an average of seven years between when the blood sugar may help the diagnosis of diabetes when diabetes is diagnosed.

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Three Types of Prevention

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Diabetes prevention interventions have three types

The preventive measures aimed at preventing diabetes can be divided into three types, focus on groups with a rising risk of diabetes:

Universal prevention is aimed at the general population and specific groups such as youth.
Selective prevention is aimed at vulnerable people such as (severe) obesity, which run an increased risk of diabetes.
Indicated prevention is aimed at people with prediabetes who are not yet diagnosed diabetes.
Universal prevention aimed at the general population and healthy lifestyle

At Universal prevention refers to interventions aimed at preventing diabetes by promoting a healthy lifestyle in the general population. This promotion of a healthy lifestyle focuses on the prevention of obesity or weight reduction in all existing overweight. Obesity Interventions usually consist of a combination of increasing physical activity and improving diet.

There are several initiatives in the Netherlands in promoting a healthy lifestyle for different age groups and different settings (Hamberg-van Reenen et al, 2008). A known area targeted intervention from the Netherlands who are focused on the general population is “Heartbeat Limburg. In this intervention, local working groups set up health promotion activities in the region to organize (pass and nutrition interventions at the neighborhood level)

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Types of Diabetes

Monday, January 4th, 2010

type 1 diabetesThere are different types of diabetes, the most common are type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Type 1 Diabetes. This form of the disease is seen most often in children and young adults, also known as juvenile diabetes or insulin. The cause is unknown, but researchers believe it is due to genetic factors (inheritance) or environmental. It is a disease that is preventable.

In this type of diabetes, people can not make insulin and must inject the hormone daily to live. Symptoms occur most commonly include frequent urination, feeling very hungry, tiredness, blurred vision, excessive thirst, weight loss, or irritability.

Type 2 diabetes. Most people with diabetes have type 2, which is usually seen in people over age 45, also known as noninsulin-dependent diabetes. Is a disorder of metabolism that is associated with obesity, sedentary lifestyle (lack of exercise) and unhealthy eating habits.

Risk factors for this type of diabetes include family history, overweight people, those who do not exercise or have impaired levels of cholesterol and in women who had diabetes during pregnancy.

This disease occurs when the body does not make enough insulin or can not use it correctly. The most common symptoms are: any of the symptoms of type 1 diabetes, frequent infections, wounds that heal slowly, numbness in hands or feet.

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