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Risk Factors for Gestational Diabetes

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Having had gestational diabetes during a previous pregnancy, being over 25 years old, being overweight and having given birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds are some of the risk factors for developing gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes raises high blood glucose and causes many problems for both mother and baby, explains Dr. […]


Symptoms of Prediabetes

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One of the dangers of diabetes is being prediabetic without even knowing it. Dr. Ketevan Vladi, Internal Medicine Physician with Baptist Health South Florida, explains the symptoms of prediabetes.


Signs of Diabetic Nephropathy

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Some of the signs of kidney disease in patients with diabetes are high blood pressure, ankle and leg swelling, leg cramps, high levels of bun and creatinine in blood, weakness, paleness, and anemia. “Kidneys generally do not give you a lot of symptoms until you lose 90% of kidney function when it is too late, […]


Diabetes: Healthy Snacks

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People with diabetes can have some snacks, such as kale chips, and vegetables that are being dried and turned into almost a potato chip. Jennifer Miles Nyugen, Specialty Pharmacist Clinical Coordinator with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute and Baptist Health Primary Care, talks about the consumption of nuts, like pistachios, almonds, and walnuts.


Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes

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Diabetes is a genetic disease, but to be a sedentary and overweight, two things combined, also can cause Type 2 diabetes, explains Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and Patient Care Manager with Baptist Hospital. However, there are other risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes: age, family history, race and ethnicity, pregnancy, low HDL cholesterol and […]


Carbohydrate Counting & Diabetes

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Amy Kimberlain, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, explains the difference between healthy and non-healthy food, for example brown rice vs. white rice. She also talks about starchy vegetables such as yucca and milonga, and she affirms they’re carbs too. She says portion of carbohydrates is important such as higher caliber fuel source. Potatoes, […]


Stress and Diabetes

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Elise Karnegis, Registered Dietitian & Diabetes Educator with Baptist Health South Florida, says a stress management technique is the 4-5-6 rule: breath in for 4 seconds, hold it for 5 seconds, and breath out for 6 seconds. Angie Placeres, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, explains stress increases blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and […]


Differences between Type 1 & 2 Diabetes

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Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease. In this case, there is an underlying genetic predisposition, but much less than type 2, says Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and Patient Care Manager with Baptist Hospital. Lupus, certain types of arthritis or certain types of cancer are considered autoimmune diseases. In case of type 1 diabetes, […]


Type 1 vs. Type 2 Diabetes

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Ian del Conde, Cardiovascular Specialist at Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, says type 1 diabetes is a condition where there’s decreased production of insulin because there’s damage to the pancreas, so they will need insulin. And type 2 diabetes is different. According to Del Conde, people with this type of diabetes produce insulin, but they […]


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