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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.

Symptoms of Hyperglycemia

The basic defect in all patients with diabetes is the decreased ability of insulin to induce cells of the body to remove glucose (sugar) molecules from the blood.  Whether this decreased insulin activity is due to a decreased amount of insulin produced (type 1 diabetes), or from the insensitivity of the cells to a n

Treatment of Diabetes

The mainstays of diabetes treatment are:

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

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

Normal Regulation of Blood Glucose

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