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Diabetes Mellitus GENETIC & ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: Know it to Check it

Researchers are probing into possible connections between a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Already 20 genes involved in Type 1 diabetes, have been identified. Studies are on to determine the role of each of these score genes in causing diabetes mellitus. Several different genes influence a person’s risk in the complicated inheritance patterns of [...]

Diabetes Mellitus The Treatments: Know it to Check it

Diabetes mellitus treatment includes two inter-linked simple strategies. Regularly monitor the glucose amount in the blood, and take steps to keep it within the prescribed level. Complications can be easily avoided by a carefully controlled diet, regular physical exercise and medication. Type 1 diabetes A patient with Type 1 diabetes needs insulin injections to provide [...]

Diabetes Mellitus The Golden Rules : Know it to Check it

With reference to treatments of diabetes mellitus, it is necessary to blast one dangerous myth. Many feel that the treatment stage commences only after the diagnosis part is done or if a person is identified as a diabetic. However, that is not the case! The fact is that if that is done, diabetes mellitus will [...]

Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus: Know it to Check it

There are three methods for diagnosing diabetes mellitus. One is by measuring the glucose amount in the blood after an individual has abstained from meals (fasting) for around eight hours. The other is the oral glucose tolerance test to measure the glucose levels both before and after an amount of glucose has been swallowed. Of [...]

Diabetes Mellitus Complications: Know it to Check it

Many life-threatening complications may result if diabetes mellitus is not treated at the initial stages. In both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the complications can be heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness. Type 1 diabetes can degenerate into diabetic coma or even cause death. Diabetic coma refers to a state of unconsciousness caused by [...]

Diabetes Mellitus: TYPES & SYMPTOMS Know it to Check it

Diabetes mellitus in general has been classified into two types based on the typical symptoms, viz., (A) Type 1 diabetes; and (B) Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes was earlier known as ‘Juvenile-Onset Diabetes’ and IDDM (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus). The earlier nomenclatures of Type 2 diabetes were ‘Adult-Onset Diabetes’ and NIDDM (non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus). Type [...]

Diabetes Mellitus: The Causes Know it to Check it

Diabetics generally died within one year of contracting diabetes till the 1920s. A big change came about in 1922. A team of medical scientists, at the University of Toronto in Canada, discovered that the hormone insulin can control the symptoms of diabetes. This finding was a momentous one as it allowed people with diabetes to [...]

Diabetes and the Digestive Process

Diabetes Mellitus occurs due to the malfunctioning of the pancreas which produces insulin. This hormone controls glucose or sugar in the body. Glucose is the source of power or fuel to carry out many life-sustaining activities of the cells, termed metabolism. Ineffective metabolism affects the digestive process. Let’s have a look at the digestive process [...]

Diabetes Mellitus: Know it to Check it (Part – I)

In Canada, more than 2.2 million residents (seven percent of the population) have diabetes mellitus, and more than 25,000 deaths are due to this disease every year. The scenario is even more serious in the USA. Diabetes mellitus is the seventh leading cause of all deaths and the sixth leading cause of all deaths caused [...]

Diabetes mellitus: Tackle this silent invader

The first aspect about diabetes management is that it is not as deadly as people make it out to be. Diabetes Mellitus : A Silent Invader Diabetes is a silent invader Diabetes is basically a rich man’s disease. Diabetes happens to people who have enough to eat. It’s the wrong lifestyle or eating habits that [...]

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