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Having diabetes does not automatically suffer from depression. However, it is found that diabetics are more prone to feel depressed than those without diabetes. Why? Here we have the possible causes.

After you’re diagnosed with diabetes, you feel that the world is coming at you with all its changes: exercise, diet, medical tests. Feel you must control every aspect of your life: what you eat, what time, how much, the exercise you do, how you travel, what to do when you’re dining out, etc.. Besides, now that you are diabetic you have to establish a close relationship with your doctor and you should mark your calendar the dates for your visits. The words glucose, blood sugar, diet, carbohydrate, complications, weight, lurk all the time in your head. Besides, you’re wondering “why me?” Definitely, having diabetes is not easy to assimilate.

However, remember that the shock of diagnosis, is normal. Then when you informed and understand what it’s about having diabetes and the important role you play you in control, you will feel more relieved or alleviated. But this does not mean that you have factors that increase your risk for depression.

Factors that increase the risk of developing diabetes, but there are ways you can prevent and reduce its effects. If you are overweight, are over 45 years and family history of diabetes, could be in a state of prediabetes. Millions of people are pre-diabetic without knowing it.

Pay attention if you experience some of the typical symptoms of diabetes:

Frequent urination;
feels an unusual thirst;
excessively hungry;
feel fatigue and irritability for no apparent reason;
have blurred vision.

If you have one or more of these symptoms, get a medical examination as soon as possible. A blood test showing abnormal levels of glucose may be a sign of prediabetes.

Your doctor will tell you the steps to follow and if you need medicine to stop the development of diabetes. Maybe it’s just necessary to take certain precautionary measures and make some changes in your daily routine.

Watch your weight. Overweight is a major factor in the development of diabetes also increases the risk of strokes and heart attacks.

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Being overweight or obese increases the chances that a woman delivering a baby extra-large, and that excess weight significantly increases the risk for preeclampsia, a potentially fatal complication of pregnancy, according to specialists from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Women have more difficulties in the delivery of babies when they are very large, while infants are also at risk of injury during birth, including shoulder dislocation.

While women who are overweight or obese are known to have a higher risk of having very large babies and experience other pregnancy complications has been difficult to separate the effects of maternal weight, the gestational diabetes.

This led to investigate whether body mass index (BMI), or standard measure of weight relative to height, which is used to measure the weight of a person who could influence the risk of pregnancy, fetal health and newborn health, regardless of blood sugar levels of the mother.
Recent studies have shown that dietary changes can effectively treat gestational diabetes by more than 90 percent of women with the condition.

The consumption of foods rich in antioxidants like beta carotene, vitamin E, vitamin C and zinc slows the aging process and therefore help prevent the elderly by age-related blindness, said Dr. Charles Wong Cam, director Wong Eye Institute on the occasion of World Sight Day.

He added that several studies conducted worldwide have shown that antioxidants found in certain foods prevent blindness from muscular degeneration associated with aging by combating free radicals (resulting from the degeneration and death of cells), causing the process aging and cardiovascular diseases, as well as diabetes and cancer.

“Because the body does not have sufficient capacity to counteract the effects caused by free radicals is necessary to have a diet rich in antioxidants and these nutrients are found in foods of daily consumption such as fruits and vegetables,” said Dr. Wong, who recently received from Congress an award for his career. Read the rest of this entry »

Presence of diabetes in patients with depression and symptoms of depression more often than in the entire population. This association may be due to increased risk of depression in patients with diabetes, increased risk of diabetes in patients with depression, or both.

Several factors associated with depression symptoms, including obesity, healthy lifestyle (sedentary, high-calorie, etc.). And activation of the neuroendocrine system and inflammatory responses may cause insulin resistance and diabetes onset. Furthermore, the diagnosis of diabetes or suffer the burden of its complications can also cause depression.

One study conducted repeated measurements of fasting blood to assess whether depressive symptoms predict the occurrence of diabetes mellitus type 2 (dm2) and whether participants with T2DM are likely to present significant depressive symptoms and compared with the population without neither of the two at the beginning of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, and constitutes more than 40 percent of new cases. Even when drugs and diet can control diabetes, the disease can lead to nephropathy and kidney failure. Most diabetics do not develop kidney disease severe enough to cause kidney failure. There are about 16 million diabetics in the United States and of those, 100,000 suffer from kidney failure as a result of diabetes.

People with kidney failure must undergo dialysis, which replaces some of the filtering functions of the kidneys, or transplantation to receive a kidney from a healthy donor. Most Americans who develop kidney failure can receive medical care funded by the federal government. In 1997 the federal government spent about $ 11,800 million in the care of patients with renal insufficiency.

Black Americans, American Indians and the descendants of Hispanic Americans have diabetes, kidney disease and kidney failure at a rate above average. Scientists have been unable to explain this phenomenon and can not fully explain the interaction of factors leading to diabetic nephropathy. These factors include heredity, diet, and other conditions such as hypertension. It has been observed that high blood pressure and high concentrations of glucose in the blood increase the risk of suffering a diabetic renal finish.

Diabetes is a disease of worldwide distribution. The term diabetes, considered in isolation, means pass through . This concept was attributed many centuries ago of an alleged kidney disorder responsible for the production of polyuria, one of the hallmarks of the disease. From a clinical standpoint, diabetes mellitus usually occurs in two stages of life, denominating juvenile diabetes to that observed mainly in adolescence or young adulthood and adult diabetes, one that affects a mature individual.

Glucose Metabolism

The glucose goes into the tissues in order to provide the basis for the same energy. The cells incorporate it in two ways: 1) through insulin used as a transport, and 2) without the hormone. Tissues that require the participation of insulin to glucose incorporation, such as resting muscle tissue and adipose tissue, called insulin, and those that do not require the hormone to incorporate glucose, such as the brain, called insulin-dependent tissues. The active muscle tissue behaves as non-insulin-made which is recommended for diabetic patients in sport.
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