the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) is conducted by a health care professional to find out if either diabetes or pre-diabetes exists. The FPG, being the quickest and less expensive of the two, is recommended by the American Diabetes Association.
A person could fall into one of four categories for diabetes. There is pre-diabetes. This is a precautionary stage of diabetes; which means a person can be a future candidate for diabetes and therefore; diabetic eye disease. The blood glucose levels of an individual diagnosed with pre-diabetes reads higher than normal; yet not high enough to be included in the Type 2 diabetes category. More than twice the number of people have pre-diabetes; than any of the other three types of diabetes put together. Type 1 affects five to ten percent of the population. There is a total failure of a person's ability to produce insulin. Children and young adults are the sufferers of this type of diabetes. There are known life complications that can potentially limit their ability to live out full lives. Some specific ailments include celiac disease, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and ketoacidosis. But, when caught early and treated with care and rigor; both children and adults can fully function and live normal lives. Making annual checks for diabetic eye disease is also essential. Blindness, kidney damage, nerve damage, and heart disease are all conditions that could potentially harm a person with diabetes more readily and easily than someone who produces correct amounts of insulin. Therefore, monitoring blood glucose and taking insulin shots is critical to normalizing a person's hormone levels and thus the ability to function.
While Type 1 diabetes indicates a person's body's failure to produce insulin, Type 2 diabetes shows a person's body's inability to utilize insulin properly. In truth, the body may actually generate enough insulin, but the cells may reject the insulin. In most cases, however, the person has insufficient insulin production in the first place. Type 2 diabetes is actually more prevalent that Type 1. Type 2 diabetes seems to have an ethnic component to it. More Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and African Americans seem to be struck with this condition. And beyond that, the older people get, there are higher percentages of people who become diabetic. Most people who have diabetes, have many other health conditions. In addition to the prevalence of diabetic eye disease, a couple of conditions that appear, more often than not, are high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Both of these conditions are known to lead to an increased risk for heart attacks and strokes. When these conditions are combined with diabetes, the problem is multiplied. Better than sixty-five of diabetics eventually succumb to one of these diseases. Furthermore, when a heart attack occurs in a diabetic, it is often earlier in life and more often the person never recovers; resulting in pre mature death. Suffice it to say, that managing a person's diabetes, can not only reduce their cholesterol and high blood pressure, but also reduce their risk for heart disease and stroke.
Another form of diabetes, Gestational diabetes, happens to pregnant women; usually in their third trimester of gestation. Although this condition is much harder on the baby than mom, there is no diabetic eye disease present with this condition. What does happen is that the woman is much more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes (and all that is included) later on in life. Doctors do have some suggestions that they feel will impede the progression of Type 2 diabetes. These are really just common sense behavioral changes. Since the body needs to have regular and rigorous exercise in order to function optimally; health care providers recommend 75 to 150 minutes per week. It could be as little as 15 minutes day, 5 days a week or as much as 50 minutes, three days a week. If the activity is heavier, faster, or harder less time is needed. If the activity is easy, slow, or light a person will have to give a lot more time to it. Everyone can select the routine that is best for themselves; but it's important to remember that a lack of exercise is not good for the body and that Type 2 diabetes is linked with the lack of activity. Eating nutritious, healthy foods that include lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, and fish or poultry will help the body maintain vim and vigor.
A leading cause of blindness in adults, diabetic eye disease includes cataracts and glaucoma. Detection is difficult without an eye exam. Usually before an individual knows they have something wrong, there has been irreparable, irreversible damage to a person's eyesight. Some people have retinal swelling, some leak fluid from blood vessels, others have increased eye pressure. Without a thorough eye exam, all of these conditions are very difficult to detect. Since it has been proven that diabetes suffers have a weak link, there is sufficient motivation to manage blood sugar levels to the best of a person's ability and ultimately to reduce the risk of blindness from diabetic eye disease. You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. (Ezekiel 34:3-4) Whether a person gets a positive diagnoses of the diabetes or pre-diabetes, it is strongly suggested that an annual eye exam be part of their regular health regime.
A person could fall into one of four categories for diabetes. There is pre-diabetes. This is a precautionary stage of diabetes; which means a person can be a future candidate for diabetes and therefore; diabetic eye disease. The blood glucose levels of an individual diagnosed with pre-diabetes reads higher than normal; yet not high enough to be included in the Type 2 diabetes category. More than twice the number of people have pre-diabetes; than any of the other three types of diabetes put together. Type 1 affects five to ten percent of the population. There is a total failure of a person's ability to produce insulin. Children and young adults are the sufferers of this type of diabetes. There are known life complications that can potentially limit their ability to live out full lives. Some specific ailments include celiac disease, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and ketoacidosis. But, when caught early and treated with care and rigor; both children and adults can fully function and live normal lives. Making annual checks for diabetic eye disease is also essential. Blindness, kidney damage, nerve damage, and heart disease are all conditions that could potentially harm a person with diabetes more readily and easily than someone who produces correct amounts of insulin. Therefore, monitoring blood glucose and taking insulin shots is critical to normalizing a person's hormone levels and thus the ability to function.
While Type 1 diabetes indicates a person's body's failure to produce insulin, Type 2 diabetes shows a person's body's inability to utilize insulin properly. In truth, the body may actually generate enough insulin, but the cells may reject the insulin. In most cases, however, the person has insufficient insulin production in the first place. Type 2 diabetes is actually more prevalent that Type 1. Type 2 diabetes seems to have an ethnic component to it. More Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and African Americans seem to be struck with this condition. And beyond that, the older people get, there are higher percentages of people who become diabetic. Most people who have diabetes, have many other health conditions. In addition to the prevalence of diabetic eye disease, a couple of conditions that appear, more often than not, are high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Both of these conditions are known to lead to an increased risk for heart attacks and strokes. When these conditions are combined with diabetes, the problem is multiplied. Better than sixty-five of diabetics eventually succumb to one of these diseases. Furthermore, when a heart attack occurs in a diabetic, it is often earlier in life and more often the person never recovers; resulting in pre mature death. Suffice it to say, that managing a person's diabetes, can not only reduce their cholesterol and high blood pressure, but also reduce their risk for heart disease and stroke.
Another form of diabetes, Gestational diabetes, happens to pregnant women; usually in their third trimester of gestation. Although this condition is much harder on the baby than mom, there is no diabetic eye disease present with this condition. What does happen is that the woman is much more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes (and all that is included) later on in life. Doctors do have some suggestions that they feel will impede the progression of Type 2 diabetes. These are really just common sense behavioral changes. Since the body needs to have regular and rigorous exercise in order to function optimally; health care providers recommend 75 to 150 minutes per week. It could be as little as 15 minutes day, 5 days a week or as much as 50 minutes, three days a week. If the activity is heavier, faster, or harder less time is needed. If the activity is easy, slow, or light a person will have to give a lot more time to it. Everyone can select the routine that is best for themselves; but it's important to remember that a lack of exercise is not good for the body and that Type 2 diabetes is linked with the lack of activity. Eating nutritious, healthy foods that include lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, and fish or poultry will help the body maintain vim and vigor.
A leading cause of blindness in adults, diabetic eye disease includes cataracts and glaucoma. Detection is difficult without an eye exam. Usually before an individual knows they have something wrong, there has been irreparable, irreversible damage to a person's eyesight. Some people have retinal swelling, some leak fluid from blood vessels, others have increased eye pressure. Without a thorough eye exam, all of these conditions are very difficult to detect. Since it has been proven that diabetes suffers have a weak link, there is sufficient motivation to manage blood sugar levels to the best of a person's ability and ultimately to reduce the risk of blindness from diabetic eye disease. You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. (Ezekiel 34:3-4) Whether a person gets a positive diagnoses of the diabetes or pre-diabetes, it is strongly suggested that an annual eye exam be part of their regular health regime.
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