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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
