Diabetic Eye Exams: Why They Matter
Diabetes can result in vision problems, so it is important to closely monitor patients through comprehensive eye examinations.
Glucose Monitoring
Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to serious health consequences and is the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and nontraumatic lower-extremity amputation among people 20 to 74 years.
The Skinny on Commonly Prescribed Antiobesity Medications
Many common medical problems, such as cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases and diabetes, are related to obesity and can improve with weight loss.
Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia, also known as low blood sugar, can cause chills, clumsiness, and nightmares.
Diabetic Foot Disease
Although the rate of foot and leg amputation has greatly declined over the past 2 decades, increasing awareness for macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes is essential because diabetes is the leading cause of lower-limb amputations in the United States.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis: What Goes Up Must Eventually Come Down
Both types of diabetes can cause problems, but the most life-threatening complications of T1D are from diabetic ketoacidosis.
