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Diabetes is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body. An estimated 18.2 million people in the United States–6.3 percent of the population–have diabetes, a serious, lifelong condition. Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar), resistance to insulin, or both. There are three major types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in childhood.

The body produces little or no insulin, and daily injections of insulin are needed to sustain life. Type 1 diabetes is usually due to the auto-immune destruction of beta cells in the pancreas. Symptoms of Type 1 diabetes usually develop over a short period, although the destruction of beta cells can begin years earlier. Symptoms may include increased thirst and urination, constant hunger, weight loss, blurred vision and extreme fatigue. Type 2 diabetes is much more common than type 1 and makes up most of all cases of diabetes. It usually occurs in adulthood. The pancreas does not produce enough insulin to maintain blood glucose standardal.

The risk of developing type 2 diabetes is increased if it runs in your family. Nine out of ten people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes and over 80% of these people are overweight. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. Gestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women – about 135,000 cases in the United States each year. Some women develop gestational diabetes late in pregnancy. About 20%–50% of affected women develop type 2 diabetes. Women with gestational diabetes are more likely to have large babies. The treatment of diabetes is highly individualized, depending on the type of diabetes.

Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Tips There are many steps to get rid of diabetes. Some include

1. Insulin must be given as an injection.

2. Aspirin therapy also recommeded.

3. Smoking cessation can also help lower risk.

4. Lose weight if you are obese and begin an exercise program.

5. Metformin medicine also helpful or type 2 diabetes.

6. Anti-hypertensive medicines to control high blood pressure.

7. A statin, such as simvastatin or atorvastatin, to reduce high cholesterol levels

8. Exercise, weight control and sticking to your meal plan can help control your diabetes.

The term diabetes comes from the Greek language, and was coined by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. It meant “a compass, siphon.” The sense “siphon” gave rise to the use of diabetes as the name for a disease involving the emancipation of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English as diabete. It was in 1675 that Thomas Willis added the word mellitus, from Latin, meaning “honey”, to this name, as a reference to the sweet taste of the urine. This sweet taste had been noticed in urine by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, and Indians. It was confirmed that it was due to an excessive amount of a kind of sugar in the blood and urine of people suffering from diabetes. The ancient Indians tested for diabetes by monitoring if ants were attracted to a person’s urine, and called the ailment “sweet urine disease”.

Diabetes mellitus, quite often simply called diabetes, is a condition typified by abnormally high blood sugar and disordered metabolism. It results from low levels of insulin, a hormone present in the pancreas, with or without abnormal resistance to insulin’s effects. The disorder is characterized by disproportionate urine production, excessive thirst, and abnormal increase in appetite and fluid intake, paired with blurred vision, unexplained weight loss and indolence. These symptoms may not exist if the blood sugar is only mildly elevated. They typically worsen over days to weeks. The World Health Organization acknowledges three main forms of diabetes mellitus: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy. Each of these types has different causes and mass allocations. Eventually however, all forms are caused due to the pancreatic beta cells being unable to produce sufficient insulin. Type 1 diabetes is usually due to reflexive annihilation of these pancreatic beta cells. Type 2 diabetes is set apart by insulin resistance in a particular target tissue that causes a demand for abnormally high amounts of insulin, which the beta cells cannot meet. Gestational diabetes is quite akin to type 2 diabetes in a way, for it involves insulin resistance; the hormones of pregnancy can cause insulin resistance in women who happen to be hereditarily predisposed to developing this condition.

Gestational diabetes typically resolves with delivery of the child, but types 1 and 2 diabetes are chronic ailments. All types have been curable since insulin became medically available in 1921. Type 1 diabetes, in which insulin is not secreted by the pancreas, is directly treatable only by injecting insulin, although dietary and other lifestyle adjustments are required. Type 2 may be managed with a permutation of dietary therapy, tablets, injections and insulin supplementation

Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are at least partly inherited. Type 1 diabetes, although inherited, appears to be triggered by some infections, or in a less common group, by stress or environmental exposure to chemicals and drugs. There is a stronger inheritance archetype for type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes can cause many severe complications, which may occur if the disease is not properly controlled. Serious long-term complications include chronic renal failure, cardiovascular disease, nerve damage, retinal damage and micro vascular damage, which may cause impotence and poor healing of wounds – particularly of the feet, which can lead to gangrene, and which may require amputation. Adequate treatment of diabetes, as well as increased emphasis on blood pressure control and lifestyle factors, may improve the risk profile of most aforementioned complications. In the urbanized world, diabetes is probably the most important cause of adult blindness in relatively young people and non-traumatic amputation in adults. Despite the availability of treatment, diabetes has remained a major cause of death.

Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, accounting for more than 40 percent of new cases. Even when drugs and diet are able to control diabetes, the disease can lead to nephropathy and kidney failure. Most people with diabetes do not develop nephropathy that is severe enough to cause kidney failure. About 16 million people in the United States have diabetes, and about 100,000 people have kidney failure as a result of diabetes.

Diabetes is a disease in which insulin is either not produced (type 1) or insulin made by the pancreas is no longer effective (type 2). Glucose enters the blood stream as food is digested. Insulin is a hormone that allows glucose to leave the blood as it circulates and enter the cells. When glucose enters the cells, it fuels them, with the energy they need to run the body. If there is no insulin, or if it is not working like it should, the glucose keeps circulating in the blood, unable to leave.

Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. With Type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin. With Type 2 diabetes, the more common type, your body does not make or use insulin well. Without enough insulin, the glucose stays in your blood. Over time, having too much glucose in your blood can cause serious problems. It can damage your eyes, kidneys, and nerves.

Diabetes resulting in an insulin-dependent state is classified as Type 1 diabetes. While Type 1 diabetes affects only between 5 to10 percent of the diabetic population, its effects on the body can be worse than other forms of diabetes. In the past, Type 1 has been known as juvenile or juvenile-onset diabetes (because it is usually diagnosed in those under thirty), brittle diabetes, unstable diabetes, and ketosis-prone diabetes. People in this classification more frequently exhibit the classic symptoms, usually with ketones present in blood and urine.

Diabetes can damage this system. High levels of blood sugar make the kidneys filter too much blood. All this extra work is hard on the filters. After many years, they start to leak. Useful protein is lost in the urine. Having small amounts of protein in the urine is called microalbuminuria. When kidney disease is diagnosed early, (during microalbuminuria), several treatments may keep kidney disease from getting worse. Having larger amounts is called macroalbuminuria. When kidney disease is caught later (during macroalbuminuria), end-stage renal disease, or ESRD, usually follows.

The risk of type 2 diabetes increases as you get older, especially after age 45. Often, that’s because people tend to exercise less, lose muscle mass and gain weight as they age. But type 2 diabetes is increasing dramatically among children, adolescents and younger adults. Prediabetes is a condition in which your blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. Left untreated, prediabetes often progresses to type 2 diabetes.

Diabetic kidney disease takes many years to develop. In some people, the filtering function of the kidneys is actually higher than normal in the first few years of their diabetes. Over several years, people who are developing kidney disease will have small amounts of the blood protein albumin begin to leak into their urine. This first stage of CKD is called microalbuminuria. The kidney’s filtration function usually remains normal during this period.

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Your back is a vital body part. It plays an essential role in every part of daily life. Since the back is so important, you want to keep up-to-date on information about back pain and its treatment.

Begin with this basic information.

Information on Back Pain #1 – What Is Your Back?

Back pain can best be understood when you understand the structure of your back, so let’s build a spine. Your back consists of 30 small bones called vertebrae. These bones are stacked on top of each other, and connected by ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Your stack of connected vertebrae is divided into four regions. From the base of your skull down to your pelvis, these four regions are:

1. Cervical or neck vertebrae – the top 7

2. Thoracic or upper back vertebrae – the next 12

3. Lumbar or lower back vertebrae – 5 more

4. Sacrum and coccyx – 6 fused bones at the spine’s base

Between your vertebrae are round, spongy cartilage pads called disks. Disks act as shock absorbers for your spine. A column-like spinal cord runs through your stack of vertebrae. It, too, is divided into segments similar to nearby vertebrae. Your spinal cord contains nerve roots and nerve rootlets that spread out, sending messages of pain from your back to your brain.

Information on Back Pain #2 – Back Pain’s Causes

Back pain is among the most common complaints. It is also one of the most painful. Since it can be difficult to treat, it is important that you have good information on back pain. Most good information on back pain will agree that when you lift something too heavy, you may cause a sprain, pull, strain, or spasm in one of the muscles or ligaments in your back. That will cause back pain.

Let’s look at more specific information on back pain.

1. Your cervical spine, or upper back, begins at the base of your skull. It is composed of seven vertebrae with eight pairs of cervical nerves. This part of your spine is designed to support your head and give you mobility.

Injury or mild trauma to the cervical spine can cause one of a number of serious, even life-threatening medical emergencies. You might have a spinal cord injury (SCI) or a fracture. Such injury could cause pain, numbness, weakness, and tingling.

2. Your thoracic spine is just below your cervical spine. Your ribs are connected to this part of the spine. Think of it as the back of your chest. Your thoracic spine is designed to be strong and stable, permitting you to stand upright and protecting your vital internal chest organs. Although thoracic, or middle back pain is rather uncommon, it causes significant pain when it does occur.

The most common causes of middle back pain are muscular irritation and joint dysfunction. You may injure a disk, and cause middle back pain, but such injuries are very rare.

3. Your lumbar spine, or lower back region, is most likely to experience pain. This is because your lumbar region supports the weight of your upper body. It takes the most abuse.

Many things can cause injury and pain to your lower back. As with all parts of the spine, muscle strain or spasm may occur when you lift or carry things that are too heavy. Sprains of ligaments occur in similar manner. You may experience joint problems or a “slipped disk.”

The most common cause of lumbar or lower back pain, though, is simply using your back muscles for actions you usually do not do. Perhaps you sit at a desk most days, but one weekend, you help friends move furniture. Or you normally teach school, but during the summer, you decide to create a large vegetable garden in your back yard.

A so-called “slipped disk” (herniated disk) occurs when a disk, one of those spongy cartilage pads between your spines vertebrae bulges out and presses on nerves. This often occurs when you twisting while lifting something. You may not know what caused your slipped disk, if it happens. You will know the lower back pain that comes as a result.

Information on Back Pain #3 – Back Pain and Your Physician

Not every back pain will require a visit to your physician. Many back pains can be treated effectively at home with heating pads and ice packs. Over-the-counter (OTC) medications can also give the relief needed. However, there are times when you will want your physician to give information on back pain, and prescribe treatment.

Seek a qualified physician if any of the following is true:

• Your pain is so bad you can’t move around

• Your pain is not less after two weeks

• Your pain was caused by an injury

• You have a fever

• You feel nauseous or are vomiting

• You have a stomachache

• You are weak or sweating

• Your pain goes down the leg below your knee

• You lose control over going to the bathroom

• Your foot, leg, rectal, or groin area is numb

Information on Back Pain #4 – Back Pain Prevention

Your health care provider, whether physician, chiropractor or other, will encourage you to maintain an active, healthy lifestyle as part of back pain prevention. The best information on back pain they can provide you is to avoid injury in the first place. Develop healthy back habits. The following five bad habits can cause back pain. Avoid them.

• Twisting when lifting

• Bad posture

• Lack of exercise and too much weight

• Smoking tobacco

• Ignoring back pain

The more information on back pain you have, the better prepared you will be to deal with it.