Articles, tagged with "insulin resistance", page 1
What You Must Know About Metabolic Syndrome And Type 2 Diabetes
One of the major risk factors of overweight is the development of metabolic syndrome. Medical researchers estimate that at least 100 million people in India alone have metabolic syndrome. People with metabolic syndrome have at least three of the follo...
Risk Factors For Type II Diabetes
Type II Diabetes is the most common form of Diabetes. It develops due to body’s failure to respond to the insulin produced by the pancreas. Due to insulin resistance there is a false deficiency of insulin leading to high sugar level. It is also known as n...
Gestational Diabetes Risk Factors
Gestational Diabetes gets developed in women during pregnancy. It is health condition in which a pregnant woman develops intolerance to carbohydrate. There are certain factors, which increase the risk of Gestational Diabetes during pregnancy. The more the...
White Rice as a Risk for Diabetes
In the United States just over 20 million people (which is approximately 8% of the population) have adult onset type 2 diabetes. The average prevalence of diabetes in adult people is about 6% and in Asian countries it is somewhat higher than other countri...
Choose The Right Treatment For Acne
The general opinion is that acne and acne products are only associated with teenagers hoping to get rid of acne before prom night. Even though acne products are part of the teenage years, a lot of adults have to cope with acne and acne scars in their adul...
Type II Diabetes symptoms
Diabetes is medical condition a person has high blood sugar. This could be due to less production of Insulin or insulin resistance by the body. High blood sugar could result into polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia.
Type 2 diabetes is caused due to ins...
Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus or simply diabetes is a disease in which sugar levels in the blood increase, resulting in several metabolic disorders. Diabetes is a very common disease and is estimated that more than 8 percent of the total population of America are dia...
Atherosclerosis: A Preventable Killer
Cardiovascular disease kills over 800,000 Americans each year. One of the most common causes of this killer is a condition called atherosclerosis. In patients with this condition, cholesterol invades the walls of the arteries reducing blood flow and lea...
Blood Sugar Monitoring for Type 2 Diabetes: How to Use Your Results
Having to take time out of your day to check blood sugars can be a hassle. Sometimes your fingers get sore and strips can get costly.
So why do you do it?
If you are checking your blood sugars ONLY because your doctor told you to then you are wastin...
Understanding and Managing Pre-Diabetes
Pre diabetes is a health condition where a person’s blood sugar is high but not to the point of being termed a diabetic or a person with type 2 diabetes. In fact most people with pre diabetes are completely unaware that they have it.
Pre diabetes is a ...
Diabetes Mellitus - Understanding Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
As of the year 2000, according to the World Health Organization, at least 171 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. For at least 20 years, diabetes rates in North America have been increasing rapidly. In 2010 nearly twenty six million people have...
Are You Becoming a Diabetic?
Four warning signs you shouldn’t ignore
Full blown diabetes is easy to spot: frequent, uncontrollable urges to urinate, virtually unquenchable thirst, numbness in your hands and feet. Symptoms leading up to the full blown disease are easier to ignore. ...
Promising Innovative Treatment Plan for Diabetes Type Two
Inside of the Mayo Clinic located within Florida, research workers examining mice have formulated a hopeful completely new treatment technique for diabetes type 2 along with its signs or symptoms, now inflicting around 2 hundred million people around the ...
Gestational Diabetes and Risks to the Baby
Gestational diabetes is generally a short-term version of diabetes, in which the woman's body is unable to create the right amount of insulin so as to handle glucose quantities in pregnancy. All the expectant mothers are generally examined regarding gesta...
Gestational Diabetes and its Risks
Gestational diabetes is generally a short-term form of diabetes, wherein a person's body is unable to make adequate insulin so as to control sugar concentrations while being pregnant. All the mothers-to-be will be checked for gestational diabetes during h...