As you know, Type 2 diabetes is diagnosed based on your blood sugar level, and tracking your blood sugar is an important way to track the effects of diet and medication dosages.
There is a chemical in your body known as glycated hemoglobin. It is also known as HbA1c... and while that may sound like one more version of the flu we should all be scared of, it is just a type of hemoglobin that forms in your blood when it is exposed to the sugar in your blood. Of course, the more sugar that is in your blood, the more glycated hemoglobin is going to be there. So this is a fairly predictable way of determining whether you have diabetes. And once you have it, this can also be a good way to identify if your blood sugar is generally under control.
The Important HbA1c Level: The HbA1c value is the main way to track your progress in controlling Type 2 diabetes. The great thing about going by your HbA1c is that it is not some quick, short term thing you can check. It isn't just going to register something "in the moment" because you have just eaten a meal, because you just woke up, or for any other short-term reason.
Simply put, it takes a lot of time for hemoglobin to undergo the glycation process in the presence of glucose. In fact, it actually takes around 120 days for this to happen. So the process (and by extension, the results), are the kind of thing that is going to be informative as to the general state of your blood sugar levels, not just what's going on right now. Considering how many tests seem to be obsessed with what is going on this instant, the fact that your glycated hemoglobin takes months to reveal what's going on can be a great way to take an informed, unhurried stance in decision making.
High Blood Sugar Levels: After all, if you have too much sugar in your blood, you've got problems. You know what kinds of things can happen when diabetes rages uncontrolled through your body. While diabetes has never been known to shout, "Diabetes SMASH", it can wreak havoc on several of the more sensitive organs in your body. The ultimate problem with Type 2 diabetes is not what is going to happen immediately. After all, it won't slam you like getting into a car accident would, and it won't suffocate you like drowning would. Type 2 diabetes works slowly and insidiously, like termites chewing their way around in your blood stream.
Techniques: There are two bad things about the HbA1c value though. For one thing:
it is not guaranteed that having a higher than average amount of glycated hemoglobin means that you are diabetic
another reason why the HbA1c is not necessarily great is because there is a significant margin for error involved
Different analytical techniques can actually yield substantially different results. The American Diabetes Association recommends diabetics get their HbA1c values below 7 percent. Research shows though, that lower values cut the risk of complications, so many experts now call for targets of 6.5 or even 6 percent.
2009/04/26
Who is easy to get diabetes
1, you win some and diabetes family
Studies have indicated that the families of people suffering from diabetes mellitus than the general public for more than 5 times higher.
2, in the older, the elderly
After the 40-year-old, 100 people about 10 people will suffer from diabetes, post-middle age should therefore pay special attention to.
3, the size of fat people
Onset diabetes cases in about 60% of obese people.
Studies have indicated that the families of people suffering from diabetes mellitus than the general public for more than 5 times higher.
2, in the older, the elderly
After the 40-year-old, 100 people about 10 people will suffer from diabetes, post-middle age should therefore pay special attention to.
3, the size of fat people
Onset diabetes cases in about 60% of obese people.
What kind of disease is diabetes mellitus
Diabetes is the body glucose, protein and fat of a chronic metabolic disorder is the most common endocrine disease in one of the diseases characterized by high blood sugar and urine sugar. High blood sugar from time to time a little more than three symptoms, namely, more than drinking, polyuria, and more eating and weight loss, and there is fatigue, weakness . Ketoacidosis can occur when a serious, non-ketoacidosis coma, and may be accompanied by a variety of infections. Course of the elderly can occur atherosclerosis, nerve, kidney and complications such as retinopathy.
Diabetes regardless of age
Diabetes has, regardless of age, old, middle, green, small, young of all ages are not uncommon, and most patients seek medical treatment when it is, the late loss of the best period of treatment. Nanjing First Hospital in the intensive treatment of diabetes center, the reporter saw 18-year-old secondary school students who are having diabetes above the food, a few days ago, children birthday drink two bottles of cola, the night vomiting, hematemesis, low-grade fever and other symptoms, the family found out their children to the hospital suffering from type 1 diabetes, the system by a few days treatment, the disease is improved. Intensive treatment of diabetes, according to Ma Jianhua, director of the Center, the recent years, the incidence of diabetes increased by 1 ~ 2 times the incidence of Jiangsu Province from the 20th century at he end of the 80's about 1 percent, rose to 2.5% now to 4% .
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