Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
It has been estimated that out of every 100 women who are pregnant 3-8 women will suffer from gestational diabetes. In most cases, the diabetes will disappear on having the baby. However the risk of having diabetes in future is still ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
One of the main reasons diabetes remains one of the most difficult diseases to detect is because of its unusual symptoms. Most of the time symptoms go unnoticed simply because they are so common. If the condition is detected early on, it can be controlled successfully and also reduce the ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The incidence of Diabetes (common name Diabetes Mellitus) in little children is increasing at an alarming rate. Types of viruses like Coxsackie R or certain environmental factors can actually trigger a diabetic attack in children. Susceptibility to the disease is greatest during the initial primary schooling years or even during ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Diabetes Mellitus, a chronic condition resulting from insufficient release of the insulin hormone in the body and hence leading to a high blood sugar level, is caused due to a number of factors such as sedentary lifestyle, hereditary and genetic factors, age of the person, nutritional intake etc. The result, ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Diabetes can and often does go undiagnosed because the symptoms can seem harmless and oftentimes normal. In both the known classes of diabetes, signs and symptoms are more likely to be similar. This is because the blood sugar is high, either due to less production of insulin, or no production ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
The functioning of the human body depends heavily on the production of a hormone called insulin by the pancreas. If enough insulin isn’t produced, or when the insulin produced isn’t effective enough, the level of glucose in the body does not get regulated. This, at a very basic level, is ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Diabetes is caused by poor and inadequate secretion of the insulin hormone, hence leading to improper absorption of glucose from the food, thereby reducing the energy levels in a person. This is a main cause of Type 1 diabetes where the cells that produce insulin are attacked in the body’s ...
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