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…...

More than 1/3 of the population have prediabetes, according to Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald and the majority don’t know it. Amy Kimberlain, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, affirms the most important reason is that people are not going to the doctor. There are a multitude of reasons why people may not know, but that…...

Damage to nerves and kidneys, cardiovascular disease, and eye and foot damage are some complications of diabetes. Dr. Lara Paraskos, Endocrinologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains what can happen when the disease is not controlled and what other complications a patient can suffer from. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel: . . Follow us…...

Angie Placeres, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, explains diabetes is an autoimmune disorder that attacks the beta cells that make insulin. Those who get diagnosed with type 1 have to inject insulin for the rest of their life, because they can never make it again. She says type 2 is more insulin resistance,…...