Diabetes Takes A Team:

November is National ! Diabetes is a serious health condition affecting about 37 million U.S. adults and youth. Get tips on how to manage your diabetes from @NIDDKgov:

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Research illustrates that including blueberries in a daily diet offers health benefits that can help manage diabetes, a great reason to grab a few

Raising Awareness about Today we will take a look at how diabetes impacts cardiovascular health in this short video.

Take Diabetes to Heart: Linking Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

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Let's take a look at how diabetes impacts renal function (kidneys)

Diabetes and your kidneys - DiaBiteSize

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Q&A

Question #1 What is prediabetes?

Prediabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.

Approximately 96 million American adultsโ€”more than 1 in 3โ€”have prediabetes. Of those with prediabetes, more than 80% donโ€™t know they have it. Prediabetes puts you at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/predia

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Question #2
What Causes Prediabetes?

Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into cells for use as energy.

If you have prediabetes, the cells in your body donโ€™t respond normally to insulin. Subsequently, the pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond.

Eventually, your pancreas canโ€™t keep up, and your blood sugar rises, setting the stage for prediabetesโ€”and type 2 diabetes down the road.

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Question #3
What are the risk factors for prediabetes/diabetes?

You can have prediabetes for years but have no clear symptoms, so it often goes undetected until serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes show up.

Itโ€™s important to talk to your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested if you have any of the risk factors for prediabetes, which include:

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Question #4
What is Type I Diabetes?

If you have type 1 diabetes, your pancreas doesnโ€™t make insulin or makes very little. Insulin helps blood sugar enter the cells.

Without insulin, blood sugar canโ€™t get into cells and builds up in the bloodstream. High blood sugar is damaging to the body and causes many of the symptoms and complications of diabetes.

Learn More:
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Question #5
What is type II Diabetes?

With type 2 diabetes, your body doesnโ€™t use insulin well and canโ€™t keep blood sugar at normal levels. About 90-95% of people with diabetes have type 2.
It develops over many years and is usually diagnosed in adults (but more and more in children, teens, and young adults).
Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed with healthy lifestyle changes, such as:
Losing weight.
Eating healthy food.
Being active.

Stumped on what to cook for Thanksgiving? This all-in-one handbook has everything you need to prepare a diabetes-friendly Thanksgiving feast on a budget, including recipes, a grocery list, a game plan, tips for building a healthier Thanksgiving plate, and ideas for leftovers.

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FDA Approves First Drug That Can Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

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@nursefrombirth
Very interesting. Is there somewhere that shows what they are using as 'Stages'? For instance, honeymoon period?

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@Faay this is typically how they stage Type 1 Diabetes. Thanks for chiming in. ๐Ÿค—

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@nursefrombirth
perfect. TY ๐Ÿ˜
Our daughter is a t1D. Diagnosed at 7. For 18 years now, so we've been talking about it.โ˜บ๏ธ

@Faay So, it looks like you have some first hand experience with diabetes. Managing childhood diabetes for 18 years is no easy task. Kudos to you. I am really excited about this research. All the best to your daughter. If you have questions or anything I'm pretty good at keeping up with the latest medical developments. ๐Ÿค—

@nursefrombirth
It has been one of life's speed bumps.. keeping on though. Thank you.
That's why those of us in the know were curious on a more in depth reading.
I will definitely keep you in mind โ˜บ๏ธ

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