Health tips for Diabetic
With actions aimed at changing lifestyle may delay or avoid forever the appearance of type 2 diabetes, especially in people with risk factors include being overweight or obese, leading a food rich in fat, sedentary, have relatives with diabetes be Mexican or submit a condition called impaired glucose tolerance (prediabetes), said Dr. Graciela Alexanderson Rosas, a member of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Diabetes.
He explained that pre-diabetes is a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal in a range of 100 to 125 mg / dL, but not high enough to diagnose diabetes. “Primary prevention of this problem is based on a healthy diet and increasing physical activity, actions that can slow or even prevent the disease from developing.”
However, the medical internist also said that when a change in lifestyle is insufficient as soon as possible to use some drugs such as acarbose (Glucobay) recommended by the International Diabetes Federation as an optimal therapy in the care and treatment of prediabetes.
This recommendation was based on the results of the study to prevent diabetes mellitus in non-insulin-dependent (STOP-NIDDM, for short), which showed that acarbose treatment can significantly slow down the glucose intolerance even lead to a normal level, 36% reduction in the progression of prediabetes to type 2 diabetes, in addition to the 49% decrease in risk of first cardiovascular event and 91 percent in a myocardial infarction.
Dr. Alexanderson emphasized that these findings represent a breakthrough, because according to the American Diabetes Association approximately 11% of pre-diabetes can develop in a span of 5 to 10 years type 2 diabetes, even known to be 1.5 times more susceptible to stroke compared to a healthy person.
That’s why, once the pre-detected, physicians should initiate treatment involved mainly in the lifestyle. ” He explained that “only gradually lose weight through a balanced diet, perform 30 minutes of exercise a day and taking their oral medication may be among those Glucobay, patients can slow its progression to the type 2 diabetes.”
Said that cardiovascular disease can appear before clinical diabetes, even with abnormalities that predispose to the development of atherosclerosis (blockage of arteries due to accumulation of fats that impede blood flow). Hence, “normalize glucose levels in pre-diabetes also prevents the deterioration of cardiovascular health, especially in people older than 40 years with a family history of diabetes or other risk factors, including consumption of snuff and high cholesterol.”
The specialist noted that in this sense the self is the compass of diabetes control, as it allows the doctor and relatives view the body’s response to treatment. However, he said that the biggest problem is that patients are not educated to this practice in a proper and mistakenly think that the meters are difficult to use.
However, there are free art calibration equipment for use very simple, to promote patient autonomy and responsibility regarding the control of their disease. “These innovative teams offer an accuracy close to 96 percent, requiring a minimal amount of blood are small, portable, practical and the results are easy to read, so that patients can use safely and with confidence.