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In commemoration of World Diabetes Day wish awareness Pregón readers about the importance of a healthy lifestyle

Usually when a patient is diagnosed with diabetes should undergo a change of life. That should include other than medical support from a nutritionist and psychologist

Usually the patient with diabetes should be regulated through an individualized diet the exploits of calories. Usually we make the mistake of continuing and widespread subsistence patterns of diabetic patients and alcoholics have liver problems and triglycerides

On the physical activity we must emphasize that it is extremely important for proper function of the pancreas. The more weight to insulin resistance. Read the rest of this entry »

We found that treatment to lower blood sugar levels can be dangerous. The intensive treatment to lower glucose levels in the blood of diabetic patients may be as dangerous as allowing the sugar remains at high level, a study says.

Scientists at Cardiff University in Wales, analyzed the records of nearly 50,000 patients with type 2 diabetes and found a link between lower levels of blood glucose and increased risk of death.

They also found a significant difference in death rates of patients treated with insulin and patients taking tablets., Says the study published in The Lancet.
Changing treatments

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The authors acknowledge that there may be several factors associated with these results, as the older age of patients who had more health problems and who may have had diabetes for longer.

It also mentions a possible link between insulin use and progression of cancer, which was found in a previous study.
Insulin Injection

The increased risk was found among those who control the disease with insulin only.

“We need to study further whether intensification of glucose control with insulin therapy alone increases the risk of death in patients with diabetes,” says Dr. Craig Currie, who led the research.

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DEFINITION
Diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease caused by diabetes) has been defined on clinical grounds as persistent proteinuria (protein excretion in the urine entire 500 milligrams a day, or excretion of albumin in the urine of 300 milligrams in a day) in the urine of patients with diabetes who also have diabetic retinopathy (eye disease in patients with diabetes) but have no other kidney.

BACKGROUND

Diabetes mellitus type 1 and type 2 national and global level has become the leading cause of end stage renal disease, that is due to:

1. The increase in the prevalence (number of patients) in type 2 diabetes especially.
2. Patients with diabetes are living longer.
3. Patients with chronic renal failure due to diabetes mellitus are being accepted into dialysis programs / hemodialysis and kidney transplantation of which were previously excluded.

In patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 with 20 years of evolution, 50% of them develop diabetic nephropathy, and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus only 10 to 20%. However, the great difference in prevalence (most common type 2) causes the majority of patients with diabetic nephropathy is secondary to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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In an emergency or accident is important that the people around you know you live with diabetes and which type of diabetes you have.

Very importantly, we have no habit of using, is a medical ID, this means that you must always wear a bracelet, insert, or something that says you live with diabetes and that type.

It is also important that you remember to take with you all your medications and what they need to be well.

The following studies are routine and you must be very attentive to them to make sure everything works very well, remember it’s not because you are serious only for prevention. If something were irregular, if detected early have a good chance of correcting it. Talk a lot with your Endocrinologist for more information.

a) glycated hemoglobin is the average of 3 months you should do it every 4 months minimum. This is a blood analysis and you must try this very about 6 or less.

b) Lipid Profile to check that the body fat are normal (once or twice a year).

c) Profile thyroid is recommended once a year.

d) Albumin in urine once a year. To see that your kidneys are excellent as ever.

e) Ophthalmologist to review the fundus (twice a year).

f) cleaning dentist every 6 months.

If you are considering pregnancy or already these and live with diabetes, we give you some suggestions:

“Ideally, before pregnancy do a routine Czech your eyes (the eye), blood pressure and kidneys. It’s very important to maintain glucose levels within normal range every day. Before each meal than 100mg/dl two hours after each meal between 140 and 150mg/dl .. It means you have to measure yourself many times in one day!

You must keep your glycosylated hemoglobin than 6%, we know that sometimes this is hard, but remember that if you really want.

Do a little exercise will help you a lot, I highly recommend swimming and water if they’re not very good walk also suit you.

As always a balanced diet is very important, remember to make 5 meals a day in small portions is very good, consult your nutritionist.

Imbalances in blood sugar and excess weight may appear together or one following the other, especially after middle age. When that happens not only produces a semantic combination of the names of these two disorders, but triggered a mixture of effects which is harmful to health.

The generalization of overweight, obesity and diabetes among the population has already reached in many developed countries the size of a real pandemic, which in 2025 may affect worldwide to 300 million people, with a high risk of suffering severe vascular disorders.

The problem is much greater in countries like the U.S., where smoking also threatens to collapse the health system unless we take drastic measures to narrow, but the so-called “diabesity” ‘-clever contraction of the words diabetes and obesity-is reached worrying proportions in other developed countries.

The relationship between excess weight and diabetes was one of the main issues discussed during the last congress of the uropean Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) held in the city of Jerusalem. The participants have agreed on linking diabetes with the current sedentary lifestyle and poor diet which encourages overweight, and warned that there will be an escalation in the incidence of both diseases if urgent measures are taken so that society change their behavior.

Excess fat, excess sugar behaves like a true gland attached to the body and dangerous to your health. This is because fat cells secrete molecules that promote insulin resistance, a process that causes blood sugar to rise, along with promoting inflammation, alter immune response and damage the inner lining or endothelium of the blood vessels.

Diabesity sufferers are born with a pancreas that produce insulin in adequate quantity and works well. But due to obesity that insulin than before did its role in the body is now produced in exorbitant amounts, the muscles have to
carry the glucose to fly resistant to this hormone and an increased glucose level blood, in what is called diabetes II.

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Diabetes often goes unnoticed because their symptoms appear to be harmless. New studies indicate that the early detection of diabetes symptoms and treatment can decrease the likelihood of developing complications of diabetes.

Symptoms of diabetes include:

* Frequent urination
* Constant thirst
* Excessive hunger
* Unexplained weight loss
* Increased fatigue and weakness
* Irritability
* Blurred vision

If you have one or more of these diabetes symptoms, see your doctor immediately. You can also take our risk test, test to identify risk factors for diabetes and