How do you get diabetes?

For many people they think that how do you get diabetes is like a cold or other minor illness that can be transmitted through air like a common cold or the flu. How do you get diabetes is hereditary or more serious than that. There are several factors that can give a person a higher tendency with developing type I diabetes: hereditary factors, immune factors, and “triggering” factors such as stress or viruses. If both parents have type I diabetes the risk for developing it is less than 50%. How do you get diabetes such…

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Continuous blood glucose monitor

  Are you a diabetic and hate the daily challenge of pricking your finger for the fear that you won’t get enough blood the first time? Do you hate needles in general so that in itself makes it hard or difficult for you to bare testing your blood glucose level on a daily basis? If this sounds like you then a continuous blood glucose monitor may be the right solution for you. If you do not like the thought of sticking yourself on a daily basis in order to test your blood glucose level then…

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Continuous glucose monitors

Continuous glucose monitors and how they can help you… The continuous glucose monitors are the new wave generation of glucose monitors because it will constantly monitor your glucose level. Continuous glucose monitors are great for the younger ages who have gestational diabetes and need to be constantly monitored. Continuous glucose monitors are also great for the person who may have the fear of needles so that they can opt to wear the continuous glucose monitor so that they can avoid sticking themselves several times a day in order to monitor their blood glucose level. The…

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Impaired glucose tolerance

Do you have impaired glucose tolerance? What exactly is impaired glucose intolerance? Impaired glucose intolerance is when a person is normal and doesn’t have diabetes and their body makes regular glucose in order for them to thrive well and healthy on a daily basis. Impaired fasting glucose is when your body has the right amount of glucose in order to thrive well and function on a daily basis. Gestational diabetes can occur when someone is pregnant and develops diabetes or a child under the age of 13 develops diabetes, then they are classified as a…

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Do you Know the Type 2 Diabetes Statistics?

Do you know the type 2 diabetes statistics? Statistic show that diabetes and diabetes type 2 affect 25.8 million people in the United States only, making it one of the worlds (besides AIDs) biggest health concerns. 18 million are currently diagnosed while another 7 million are still yet to be diagnosed. It is also the seventh leading form of death for Americans. The vast amounts of diabetes is due to the high sugar amounts in today’s food and medical advances that keep the defective diabetes gene in the population. Some statistics about type 2 diabetes…

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