People with Diabetes Can Live Normal

Although diabetes mellitus cause of death from non-communicable diseases, diabetes is not the end of everything. Lifestyle changes, comprehensive care, and family support will make people with diabetes live a normal life as a healthy person.

Head of the Clinical Research Unit of Steno Diabetes Center (SDC) Prof Lise Tarnow in Gentofte, Denmark, Tuesday (28/8), said that the earlier detected, the higher the success of the treatment of diabetes. So reports Reuters journalist Zaid M Wahyudi.

Checking and controlling blood sugar routinely make general practitioner's role is very important. In Denmark, 85-90 percent of diabetes cases dealt with general practitioner. The rest were referred to a specialist.

SDC, nonprofit institutions and research centers Novo Nordisk, performing screening to prevent disorders of the eye or a leg due to diabetes. As for medical treatment, the patient was referred to a government hospital.

According to Tarnow, detailed examination by a competent medical team make the number of diabetics in Denmark who had to undergo amputation or dialysis continues to decline.

Conditions in Denmark in contrast to Indonesia. Dialysis and amputations in people with diabetes continues to grow. In addition to late detection, there is a lack of knowledge of medical problems and lack of awareness of patients.

Managing Director of the World Diabetes Foundation Anil Kapoor reminder of the importance of developing countries more aggressively deal with diabetes. Currently, 79 percent of people with diabetes is predicted and 88 percent of diabetes deaths occur in developing countries. The high death triggered morbidities associated with diabetes, such as kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, and high blood pressure.

The Center for Health Promotion Steno (SHPC) Bjarne Bruun Jensen added, the principle of diabetes treatment is to change the human and social environment. Education for patients with diabetes, diabetes prevention for at-risk groups, and the promotion of diabetes can not only be done by a doctor. In SHPC, diabetes-related health promotion is also done by public health expert, anthropologist, sociologist, ethnologist, psychologists, education specialists, communication specialists, to expert design.


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There are a number of factors that are thought to increase the risk, namely:

Impaired fasting glucose
If the blood sugar (glucose) indicates you have prediabetes (blood sugar ranges from 111-125 mg / dL), you are at high risk for diabetes.

A history of family
Someone higher risk of diabetes type 1 or type 2 if a parent or brother or sister with the disease.

Overweight
Most people with type 2 diabetes are overweight. The more fat tissue, the more resistant the muscle and tissue cells to insulin, especially if the excess fat around the abdomen.

Less active
The less active, the greater your risk of diabetes.

Age
The risk of developing type 2 diabetes increases with increasing age.

History of gestational diabetes
More than half of women who experience gestational diabetes (diabetes in pregnancy) would later developing type 2 diabetes in his life. Women who had delivered a baby weighing more than 4.5 kg are also at higher risk.

Polycystic ovary Syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common form caused by an imbalance of hormones in women. The syndrome is strongly associated with risk of type 2 diabetes. Many women who suffer from this syndrome have a high blood insulin levels and less sensitive to the effects of insulin than others.

Hypertension or abnormal blood fat
Because people who have high blood pressure and blood fat (lipid) abnormal risk of diabetes, all people with both conditions must conduct diabetes.


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