Understanding Diabetes: Causes, Symptoms, Types, and Management
Diabetes is a chronic medical condition diagnosed by high blood glucose. The disease has been said to afflict more than 415 million patients worldwide. It would increase exponentially if untreated or left unchecked. Below are the causes, symptoms, types, and management of the disease.
What is Diabetes?
It is a disease in which the body does not produce the right quantity of insulin hormone found within the pancreas, controlling and regulating sugar within the blood. Such a hormone can allow cells to take blood glucose coming to them so that these will have fuel to execute and work; when lesser amount or less effective ones of such insulin is produced then the glucose becomes to rise and accumulate to the point where it gets high and gives the disorder known as diabetes.
*Causes of Diabetes* Diabetes has many causes. 1. *Genetics*Family history is the greatest contribution towards developing diabetes 2. *Obesity*Being overweight, in particular, in visceral obesity augments insulin resistance 3. *Inadequate physical activity*Physically inactive increases the person's insulin resistance 4. *Age*Increase in age especially after crossing 45 5. Other medical conditions that have linked with diabetes, for example
Hypertension (owing to damage in blood vessels) This caused because of high cholesterol; because of that, it leads to the clogging pathways and pathways going from all essential organs, like it sometimes might lead to the hindering of the pathways, towards and away from essential organs like the heart sometimes PCOS, etc.
Without any prior warning signal this disease arises; consequently due to that reason, and due to its slow appearing of symptoms and signs a sudden signal is not visible however normally, together with a below-described signal, it occurs together, Hyperthirst Hyper urination Watches weak Dimmed vision Wounds slows on healing Tingling sensation or prickling sensations feel In limbs also known as hands and legs *Types of Diabetes*** Different categories include; 1. *Type 1 Diabetes*: where one's immune system has gone in to destroy a few insulin-forming cells in the pancreas that is in the body; 2. *Type 2 Diabetes*: this remains the most common condition of entry into the state of resistance of the hormone insulin, and accounting for 90% of people living with the disease. 1. Healthy diet: Basically, it revolves around and focuses on whole unprocessed foods. It is simply about the consumption of carbs. 2. Physical activity: moderate intensity aerobic. It needs to be continued for minimum 150 minutes a week 3. Medications: Oral medicines or injecting insulin as given by health care provider 4. Blood sugar test: A regular blood test for glucose in an attempt to formulate a line of treatment 5. *Annual medical follow-up*: A check up, one year after treatment, which attempts to capture complications arising from the disease,
Though some cannot be help, healthy lifestyle minimizes the risks to the nearest minimum as shown below:
1. Ideal weight 2. Exercise regularly 3. Well-balanced diet 4. Don't smoke 5. Manage stress
Know and awareness about diabetes, what is exactly diabetes, and what could bring it or what is true, causes it to fall on some other person, whether Type 1 or Type 2 or gestational, know and understand how it shall be taken care of or controlled, to keep people free from fetching the disease beforehand or perhaps help if someone has become the victim of the disease respectively.
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