Dr. Deepa Sharma, Family Medicine Physician with Baptist Health Primary Care, explains the treatment for diabetes depends on whether the pancreas is able to make insulin or not. She also highlights prediabetes as something that is very important, because it is between range, where you are not quite diabetic, but you are showing evidence of…...

There are two major categories of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2. Juvenile diabetes is referred to type 1. Roughly around only 5% of people have it. 95% of people in North America onset have type 2 diabetes, explains Dr. Pascual De Santis, Endocrinologist with Baptist Health South Florida. The specialist says in type 1…...

Diabetes affects 30 million people in the U.S. today, of which 22 million of them are diagnosed and 9.1 million are undiagnosed. Diabetes causes kidney failure, is non-traumatic lower-limb amputation, adult blindness, is a major cause of heart disease and stroke and is the 7th leading cause of death. Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and…...

The pancreas is in the middle of the stomach, next to the kidneys and underneath the liver. The main culprit of the pancreas is a hormone that produces insulin in it, explains Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and Patient Care Manager with Baptist Hospital of Miami. She states insulin enables people to break down sugar…...

Glucose, insulin and diabetes are related terms you should know when we are talking about this disease. Dr. Lara Paraskos, Endocrinologist with Baptist Health South Florida, tells us what happens in our body when we have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, and explains the symptoms. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel: . . Follow…...

Amy Kimberlain, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, talks about different tests for diagnosing diabetes or prediabetes. She advises doing fasting plasma glucose and according with the values, patients can be diagnosed correctly. The expert explains something under 100 indicates everything is ok, but something above 126 would be indicative of possibly diabetes, she…...

Elise Karnegis, Registered Dietitian & Diabetes Educator with Baptist Health South Florida, explains many people think prediabetes is not as bad as diabetes, but it is, because when you are diagnosed with diabetes it is about 10 years of fluctuations in the blood sugar and in that time there has been damage done to the…...

There are some statistics for PAD patients who have diabetes: 15% of diabetics experience foot ulcers, 40 to 50% of non-traumatic amputations are of diabetic patients, and 42% of these will lose their other leg in 1-3 years. Dr. Bernie Fernandez, Chief Executive Officer of Baptist Health Medical Group, says the care of patients with…...