Category Archives: Diabetes
Diabetes and Hypertension can Lead to Dementia
In addition to chronic and degenerative diseases by themselves and represent a serious health problem, hypertension and diabetes mellitus can cause dementia in people aged sixty years of age. This progressive loss of cognitive functions (memory most important recent) is due to the effects of atherosclerosis that produce these conditions in the vessels of the [...]
How to Reducing the Risk of Getting Diabetes in Men
Do you know that diabetes prevention is viable with some changes to your diet and lifestyle? The editorial outlines the behavior in reducing the risk of getting diabetes in men.
Not too long ago, the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a reading that included forty-one thousand men. These men, who had no story of diabetes, [...]
Overview of Diabetes
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is defined by an increase in blood sugar (glucose it is). The American Association of Diabetes (ADA) proposed in 1995 a modified biological criteria of diabetes, due to international epidemiological data showing that the diagnosis of diabetes was delayed. To facilitate the implementation of screening across field practitioners, it has simplified the [...]