Diabetes

Improving Blood Glucose (Sugar) Monitoring for Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (a sugar) is called SMBG for short. Most insulin-dependent diabetics carry out SMBG four to seven times a day, as it is crucial to treatment of the potentially degenerative disease of diabetes.

Not Only Sugar is Sweet
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People come by their love for sweetness naturally. Sugar - in moderation - may not be the villain it was made out to be a few years back. Its many forms, as well as its substitutes, give consumers a wide selection of ways to make life sweeter.

Diabetes in Older People : Types, Health Concerns, Symptoms
by National Institute on Aging
Diabetes is a serious disease. It happens when your blood levels of glucose, a form of sugar, are too high. Diabetes can lead to dangerous health problems. The good news is that high glucose levels can be managed to help control the disease and prevent

How Is Insulin Used? Type 2
Diabetes Survival Guide: Understanding the Facts About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
by Stanley Mirsky, M.D., Joan Rattner Heilman
In the normal person, starches, sugars, and proteins (58 percent of which is eventually converted into carbohydrate) are broken down by the intestines into glucose, a form of sugar. The glucose is carried throughout the body by the bloodstream, entering

Insulin Products
by Health Canada
Animal-sourced and biosynthetic (man-made) human insulins are used worldwide for managing diabetes. Recently, some concern has been expressed about the overall safety of insulins and the availability of animal-sourced insulins for those patients

Blood Glucose (sugar) Monitors
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The devices in the FDA-sponsored study included the widely used meters equipped with reflectance photometers, which measure light reflected from a reagent strip after it has undergone a chemical reaction.

Genes Play a Role
Diabetes Survival Guide: Understanding the Facts About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
by Stanley Mirsky, M.D., Joan Rattner Heilman
Many genetic markers for type 1 diabetes have been identified only recently. If a child has genes HLA-DR3 or HLA-DR4 on his sixth chromosome, inherited from both parents, he has 21?2 times more chance of becoming a type 1 diabetic after a viral infection.

Overcoming Juvenile Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Most people are first diagnosed with Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes during the teen years. Although this is a time when fitting in with your friends can be important, 'don't think you're different because of it,' Ryan says.

Artificial Sweeteners
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Artificial sweeteners can help consumers cut down on calories and control weight, help to manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, and potentially prevent cavities, according to the American Dietetic Association.

Inhaled Insulin
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
There is a new, potential alternative for many of the more than 5 million Americans who take insulin injections, with the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the first-ever inhaled insulin.

What are the Culprits? Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes Survival Guide: Understanding the Facts About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
by Stanley Mirsky, M.D., Joan Rattner Heilman
The genetics of type 2 diabetes turns out to be very complicated, and the disease is thought to be caused, along with excess weight and a faulty lifestyle, by a variety of genes.

Insulin Key to Diabetes, but Not Full Cure
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The names of the two main types of diabetes have been changed, but the problems haven't. Diet, insulin, and other drugs can often keep this illness under control, yet more than 250,000 Americans a year die from its complications.

Tests for Diabetes
American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes
by American Diabetes Association
Although your physician may suspect that you have diabetes because of your symptoms, the only sure way to tell is with blood tests. Blood tests are used to diagnose both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as gestational diabetes.

Encouraging Women to Take Charge of Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
About 8 million women in the United States have diabetes, and one-third of them don't know it. Identifying and managing the disease is the focus of a new education campaign.

Guide to Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2
by National Institute of Health
Your doctor says you have diabetes. This guide will help you learn how to take care of your diabetes and how to prevent some of the serious problems that diabetes can cause. We wrote this guide with help from people like you, people who have diabetes

Diabetic Retinopathy
by National Institute on Aging
Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes and a leading cause of blindness. It occurs when diabetes damages the tiny blood vessels inside the retina in the back of the eye. A healthy retina is necessary for good vision.

Diabetes Prevention and Treatment: High-Risk Groups, Tests
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Once seen only in adults, type 2 diabetes has been rising steadily in children and teens, especially black, Hispanic and American Indian adolescents, according to government reports from clinics nationwide.

Women with Diabetes Face Greater Risk of Heart Disease
by National Institute of Health
If you are overweight, you are at risk for diabetes. And if you are a woman, you should know that diabetes can affect you differently than a man, particularly your heart. Diabetes is on the rise, both in men and women, young and old.

Blood Glucose Meters: Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Glucose meters help people with diabetes check their blood sugar. And because diabetes that is not well-controlled can lead to complications such as blindness, these medical devices must be reliable, accurate, and easy to use and understand.

Diabetes Mellitus: An Overview
Diabetes: Prevention, Control, and Cure
by Seymour L. Alterman, M.D., Donald A. Kullman, M.D.
If you or someone you love has diabetes, you need this up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive guide. Written by two experienced physicians, this trusted reference, now completely revised, shares everything you need to know to keep yourself in the best