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Diabetes is a lifelong disease. Diabetes is a silent killer, because the majority of cases are not detected until the disease is in an advanced stage. Diabetes affects 17 million people in the U.S., although almost six million of them do not know they have the disease. Diabetes is a serious disease. It means your blood glucose (often called blood sugar) is too high.
Glucose in solution exists as a stable pyranose ring in equilibrium with the open chain aldehyde form. The reaction of monosaccharides with proteins consists of the covalent linkage of the double-bonded oxygen of the aldehyde function with an NH2 group, either on the alpha-amino group of the N-terminal amino acid or on the epsilon-amino group of lysine. Glucose readings are not linear over their entire range. If you get an extremely high or low reading from your meter, you should first confirm it with another reading. Glucose comes from the food you eat and is also made in your liver and muscles. Your blood carries the glucose to all the cells in your body.
Insulin is a hormone made in the pancreas, an organ near the stomach. The pancreas releases insulin into the blood. Insulin allows the body to use energy from food. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakes beta cells for invaders and attacks them. Insulin, insulin pumps, most antidiabetic drugs, test strips, and lancets are costly even though some are partly covered by medical insurance. Insulin helps glucose (sugar) leave the blood and go into the body’s cells. If not treated, the sugar that builds up in your blood can damage your heart, eyes, kidneys and blood vessels.
Type 2 diabetes develops slowly over time and may go undetected for many years. Because of the slow onset and minimal symptoms early in the disease, as many as 33 percent of the people who have the disease are not yet diagnosed. Type 1 diabetes (also known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes) is typically diagnosed early because its symptoms are severe and rapid. A treatment plan can then be put in place and continued. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed before the age of 30. With this type of diabetes, the pancreas produces little or no insulin, which the body needs to control the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood.
Heart disease, blindness, nerve damage, and kidney damage, are some of the complications that a person with Type 2 diabetes might face. Heart deaths have declined in men with diabetes, but not in women; kidney failure rates among diabetics are much higher in blacks and Hispanics than in whites. Meanwhile, the disease is increasing worldwide at such an alarming rate that the number of new cases is outpacing the number of those benefiting from gains made in treatment.
Health care officials worry that insufficient attention is being paid to the rising number of cases, apparently being propelled by genetically susceptible women entering pregnancy too fat. The inattention, the officials say, is allowing young mothers to be saddled with a harrowing lifelong disease and increasing the risk to their children of ultimately sharing that troubling destiny. Health care costs for diabetes are estimated to be nearly $100 billion per year in the US.
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