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    Diabetes

    Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease that affects how your body turns food into energy. It is also known as diabetes mellitus. The majority of the food we consume turns into sugar (glucose) and is released into the bloodstream. Once the sugar level rises, your pancreas releases insulin. The key hormone that regulates blood sugar by carrying it to your body cells to use as energy is insulin. People who have diabetes either don’t make enough insulin or are unable to use the insulin effectively.

    Possible Causes

    The major causes of diabetes are lack of insulin or sensitivity to insulin. Diabetes can occur in several ways, and all types have different causes, but the triggers are often the same. Below is the type of diabetes and its causes. 

    • Type 1 Diabetes: It is considered an autoimmune disease, where the body attacks itself. The reasons for this effect are still not known. In Type 1 diabetes immune system attacks the pancreas’s cells that make insulin. This is a rare disease, and only 5-10% of people have it.
    • Type 2 Diabetes: It occurs when your body’s cells become resistant to insulin. Eventually, your body may not produce enough insulin. The resistance to insulin causes sugar to build up in your bloodstream.
    • Prediabetes: It is the earlier stage of diabetes where your blood sugar level is higher than normal levels. However, not high enough to for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Although, the condition puts you at risk for type 2 diabetes.
    • Gestational Diabetes: It develops during pregnancy, even if you have never had diabetes. Insulin-blocking hormones produced by the placenta cause the condition. Gestational diabetes goes away when the baby is born. However, it puts the women and their babies at a higher risk for health problems.

    Risk Factors

    Untreated high blood sugar over time can cause considerable damages to your body. It can impact all body parts, including nerves, eyes, kidneys, liver, and other organs. Each type of diabetes can cause different kinds of symptoms. It may even differ based on gender.

    Signs and Symptoms

    Some of the most common symptoms of diabetes include:

    • Increase hunger
    • Extreme fatigue
    • Increased thirst
    • Frequent urination
    • Blurry vision
    • Unexplained weight-loss
    • Back pain
    • Slower wound healing

    Diagnosis

    Diabetes mostly goes undiagnosed unless the symptoms get severe. Most patients with Type 2 diabetes often come to know about it during routine checkups. The primary diagnosis for diabetes includes testing sugar levels in the blood. A reading of more than 200 mg/dL after food indicates diabetes. Reading between 140 and 199 mg/dL indicates diabetes. The 4 major blood sugar tests are:

    • Glycated hemoglobin (A1C) test
    • Random blood sugar test
    • Fasting blood sugar test
    • Oral glucose tolerance test

    Treatment Options at 7DMC

    When you turn to 7DMC, you choose the best diabetes treatment in Dubai. Our diabetes clinic in Dubai has emerged as one of the most advanced diabetes care centers in Dubai. We offer excellent preventive and diagnostic diabetes cures to our patients. Our personalized treatment and diabetes clinic is equipped with the latest facilities.

    All types of diabetes are easy to manage with a healthy lifestyle and the proper medication. Most diabetes prevention strategies include making minor adjustments to your fitness routine and diet. Along with medication, the patient needs to put genuine efforts to see actual results. Fortunately, our expert doctors, dieticians, fitness specialists, pathology technicians, and nurses can guide you in the right direction. We offer a complete solution for diabetes management. Our diabetologists in the Dubai clinic can prescribe medication and physical activities to manage blood sugar levels. Our dieticians and fitness experts can create a customized diet and exercise plan for you.

    With the combination of the best diabetologists in Dubai and our support medical staff, you can lead a healthy life. Our excellent treatment plan to manage diabetes is easy and stress-free. We are dedicated to our patients having long and healthy lives.

    FAQs

    Frequently asked questions

    Whether excess sugar intake leads to diabetes or not is yet debatable. While some studies suggest both direct and indirect relationships, some prove there are no reasons to support the fact. Eating too much sugar and lack of physical activity may lead to unhealthy weight gains. It also affects liver functions and decreases insulin sensitivity.

    Quite contrary to popular belief, healthy people may also get diabetes. Even healthy people can develop insulin resistance.  It’s not about how much fat a person may have under the skin but around the organ. Other reasons that may lead a person of healthy BMI to diabetes are a bad diet, stress, and fatty liver disease.

    Some of the early signs of diabetes are:

    • Frequent urination
    • Sudden weight-loss
    • Blurred vision
    • Increased hunger

    Tingling sensation in hands or feet

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