Diabetes is one of the most serious disease, threatening the health and lives of millions. However, not everyone is aware of their risk.
Recent years, the number of diabetes patients treated in hospitals is increasing. In which many patients in the hospital after having complications or in a coma, critically, blood sugar is too high... The reason is because patients often do not know they have diabetes or not to monitor treatment diseases, not to check at regular specialist treatment facilities.
People with the following factors are at high risk of type 2 diabetes and should be tested:
- People over 45 years
- Those who are obese (male waist> 90cm, women with waist circumference> 80cm)
- The sedentary
- Women with gestational diabetes or a history of babies weighing more than 3, 5kg
- People whose parents (or siblings) with diabetes
- People with hypertension, being treated for hypertension
- People with a disorder of blood fats (HDL " 35mg/dl and / or Triglycer " 250mg/dl)
- Those who have been diagnosed disorders or disorders of glucose tolerance and fasting blood glucose
- The race has some of the prevalence of diabetes high
Diabetes is a chronic illness, can not be cured completely, so patients must learn to live with it long term. Doctors said that if any good treatments, patients can still control the disease and reduce the risk of complications. Specifically, patients with diabetes should make the following recommendations:
- Should quit smoking, so attention to diet and exercise (fat intake less than 30% of total energy, eat more vegetables, 4-5 servings a day, eat salad mix vinegar).
- Limit alcohol because carrying more excess calories and easy to hypoglycemia if food is not enough.
- Lose weight if overweight. Regular exercise 30 minutes a day, most days of the week. Strictly follow the treatment regime of a doctor.
- Good treatment of hypertension, maintaining blood pressure below 140/80 mmHg, if there must also be kidney disease even lower blood pressure.
- Maintaining total cholesterol below 5 mmol / l, the rate of bad cholesterol / good cholesterol (LDL / HDL)