diabetes
Type 2 diabetes
What is Type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes is the most common variety of diabetes. It is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism in which the body effectively becomes resistant to the hormone insulin.Initially, the person with this disorder has impaired tolerance to glu...read more
What are the diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus ?
The American Diabetic Association and medical authorities recently revised the standards for diabetes mellitus and a "borderline" condition known as Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT). Three values are generally measured in diabetics.The fastingread more
What is diabetes?
Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases marked by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can lead to serious complications and premature death, but people with diabetes can take steps to ...read more
What we know about Diabetes
To hear from your health care provider you have pre-diabetes, or the disease diabetes, can send shock and fear through you and your family. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Diabetes is a manageable disease. Being pro-active about your situation wil...read more
What you need to know about gestational diabetes
You found out you are pregnant. This is such a special time in your life. Everything is progressing along just fine and then you find out you have Gestational Diabetes, specifically, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Suddenly things becom...read more
X-syndrome: Diabetes & heart disease linked
More than 3 million South Africans suffer from type 2 diabetes, which strikes particularly people older than 30. But it never rains, it pours. This common type of diabetes is often part of a Metabolic Syndrome (or X syndrome) that also includes high blood pressure and other ...read more
Your diabetic child at school
The incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children is about 2 in every thousand. These children mostly attend schools and daycare centres. Parents need to work in conjunction with schools in order to provide a safe environment for diabetic children. Up until recently, Type 2 diabe...read more
