A new case of diabetes occurs every 5 seconds in the world. The alert is the World Health Organization (WHO), which
released alarming note in 2007 on the current situation of the disease. The numbers scared: on average, every 10 seconds a person dies of complications as a result of this evil, the prognosis is that about 376 million people will have the disease in 2030, if no change in lifestyle. The report quoted the obesity and inactivity as the greatest villains of type 2 diabetes, mellitus. In Brazil, 11 million have the disease.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia (increase in blood sugar levels), caused by absence (type 1 diabetes) or relative (type 2 diabetes) insulin. The secretion of that hormone is important in regulating the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins.
Who has risk of developing the disease?
There are several factors that may make it more vulnerable:
• Being above the weight. The Body Mass Index must be between 20 and 24.9;
• Sedentary life style
• have more than 45 years of age;
• Giving the light child weighing more than 4 pounds;
• Inheritance (siblings or parents diabetes).
How to detect?
In a healthy person considered, the body keeps levels of glucose between 70 and 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dL). After eating, the levels go up, depending on the quantity and content of the meal, but should not exceed 140 mg / dl, a framework characterized diabetic. Already, 110 to 130 mg / dl, is the state of alert but had to be another clinical analysis to confirm the result.
Symptoms and signs that denounce the diabetes
People with levels malcontrolados usually present:
• Much headquarters;
• Will to urinate often;
• Hunger exaggerated;
• blurred vision;
• infections in the skin or mucous membranes;
• Machucados it takes to heal;
• Fatigue;
• pain in the legs, because of poor circulation.
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