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Relevant Concerns of Type 2 Diabetes

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Hello All!

Today I found somethings that I felt many be reader worthy! In a report from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists the statistics show that 27.8% of people with type 2 Diabetes get Chronic Kidney Disease compared to the 6.1% of people who have normal blood sugar. Also that 22.9% of people with Type 2 diabetes get complication of the feet compared to the 10% of people with normal sugar levels.

Also that health care costs cause people with Type 2 Diabetes to pay on average annually $7-8,000 dollars more then people without elevated sugar levels.

So what can we do about these large differences? I have decided to talk a bit about prevention of complications in Type 2 Diabetes. Also Tomorrow I plan to talk about the warning signs and symptoms of Chronic Kidney Disease.

Prevention Tips:

1. Keep your sugar level under control: reasonable sugar levels are around
80-120.

2. Checking you levels regularly and taking you medication: It helps to take your medication at the same time each day.

3. Checking you feet daily: one of the first things to show problems so it is important to look for sores, cracking of the skin, cuts that wont heal.

The key to prevention is tight control of sugar levels, if you find that your sugar is not under control please contact your regular physician. Improving our sugar levels is key to improving our overall health!

Below are some links to help you research this topic:

Read the statistics on the PDF at:

www.mendedhearts.org

The American Diabetes Association:

This site is filled with tips on prevention, and facts about diabetes.

www.diabetes.org

Until next time!
Smiles,
Lisa


Posted in Statistics, Type 2 Diabetes on May 18th, 2007

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