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Diabetes News: Depression and Diabetes

February is National Heart Awareness Month. Please make sure you know the symptoms of heart attacks, and talk your healthcare team about your cholesterol and lipid profiles. If you're not already, make this the year to become heart healthy.

Diabetes News: Foot Ulcers Linked to Mortality in People with Diabetes

The holidays are less than three weeks away. Today is the day to look at the Entertaining section of Diabetic-Lifestyle.com to review the Thanksgiving menus and recipes. You’ll find ideas for large gatherings or a dinner for two.

Diabetes News: Gene May Improve Diabetes Care

Gene May Improve Diabetes Care

Gestational Diabetes

What Is Gestational Diabetes? Gestational diabetes sometimes develops when a woman is pregnant. It’s when the blood glucose level (blood sugar level) of the mother goes too high during pregnancy.   Having an elevated blood glucose level during pregnancy can cause problems for your baby—if it’s left untreated.&n

Diagnosing Diabetes

In diagnosing diabetes, physicians primarily depend upon the results of specific glucose tests.  However, test results are just part of the information that goes into the diagnosis of type 1 or ty

Assessing How Well Diabetes is Controlled

There are two common ways that physicians assess how well diabetes is controlled:  [1] Frequent measurements of blood glucose, and [2] measurement of glycohemoglobin (A1c).  Each method has its good and bad points, but combined they give a

Endocrine Tumors of the Pancreas

The human pancreas is an amazing organ with two main functions: [1] to produce pancreatic endocrine hormones (eg, insulin & glucagon), which help regulate many aspec
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