Keeping Your Heart and Blood Vessels Healthy
Learn about what you can do each day and during the year to stay healthy and prevent heart and blood vessel problems caused by diabetes.
Complications of Diabetes
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Diabetes, What to Know Head to Toe
Diabetes 101: Tips to help you stay healthy while living with diabetes – including your eyes, heart, and your feet.
Where Diabetic Patients With Chest Pains Should Be Treated
Diabetic patients with chest pain who have more than one other common risk factor for heart attack should be considered for direct admission for a complete cardiac work-up, bypassing a period of Chest Pain Unit (CPU) observation, according to a new analysis by Duke University Medical Center researchers.
A Call for Increased Detection: Undiagnosed Diabetes and Related Eye Disease in Mexican-Americans
A research study of the Mexican-American population over age 40 found that the rate of diabetes in this group is 20 percent – almost twice that of non-Hispanic Whites – and that 15 percent of those with diabetes did not know that they had the disease before their participation in the study.
Don’t lose sight of Diabetic Eye Disease
Diabetes 101: Diabetic eye disease refers to a group of eye problems that people with diabetes may face as a complication of this disease. All can cause severe vision loss or even blindness.
Diabetes And Your Nerves
Diabetes 101: Over time, high blood sugar can harm the nerves in your body.
Causes Of Diabetic Neuropathy
Diabetes 101: Scientists do not know what causes diabetic neuropathy, but several factors are likely to contribute to the disorder.
Scientists Report New Findings on the Connection Between Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke
The latest report from the NIH-sponsored EDIC study demonstrates that high blood glucose levels play a role in the development of atherosclerosis, putting people with diabetes at increased risk for heart disease and stroke.
Millions Don’t Know Why Their Feet Hurt
If you have numbness or pain in your hands and feet and don’t know why, you may have peripheral neuropathy. But if you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably never heard of this often debilitating disease. A new national survey reveals that, when asked, only 7 percent of adults said they knew about peripheral neuropathy.
Getting to Know Gout
Say the word gout and some people will think of a bloated“king surveying the remains of a sumptuous feast, wine glass in“hand, swollen foot propped on a pillow–looking for all the world“like the dismal product of a grossly overindulgent life.
Diabetes and Kidney Disease
The deterioration that characterizes kidney disease of diabetes takes place in and around the glomeruli, the blood-filtering units of the kidneys. Find out what else it involves.
Tips for Talking to Your Doctor
Today, patients take an active role in their health care. You and your doctor will work in partnership to achieve your best possible level of health. An important part of this relationship is good communication. Here are some questions you can ask your doctor to get your discussion started.
Preventing Diabetic Kidney Disease
Preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases and increasing the availability of organs for transplantation.
Diabetes and Periodontal Disease
If you have diabetes, you know the disease can harm your eyes, nerves, kidneys, heart and other important systems in the body. Did you know it can also cause problems in your mouth? People with diabetes have a higher than normal risk of periodontal diseases.
