Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) reflects blood glucose levels over 8–12 weeks and is the gold standard for assessing long-term glycemic control. It serves three functions: Glycated hemoglobin is closely associated with both microvascular and macrovascular diabetic complications.Each 1% reduction in glycated hemoglobin lowers the risk of all diabetes-related endpoints and diabetes-related death by 21%, myocardial infarction […]
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How Can People with Diabetes Prevent Anemia?
Anemia is not just simple fatigue. It can trigger a series of health crises like a domino effect: persistent exhaustion that makes daily walking a struggle; poor memory, where you forget things moments after setting them down. Anemia also accelerates the progression of diabetic complications, including diabetic kidney disease, diabetic heart disease, retinopathy, and diabetic […]
Are fruits that don’t taste sweet safe for people with diabetes?
Many people with diabetes believe that fruits tasting sweet have a high sugar content, while those that don’t taste sweet have a low sugar content. In fact, choosing fruits based on taste is not scientific.Some sour-tasting fruits also have a relatively high sugar content, such as hawthorns, passion fruits, and sea buckthorn fruits. People with […]
Diabetic Patients: Beware of Drug Interactions
Diabetic patients should be alert to drug interactions. If you suffer from multiple diseases — meaning you have diabetes as well as other health conditions — and take multiple medications, you must follow your doctor’s instructions to avoid harmful drug interactions.Diabetic patients should never self-medicate or take drugs based solely on a friend’s recommendation. Since […]
Can people with diabetes drink alcohol?
Can people with diabetes drink alcohol? The answer is: people with diabetes should not drink alcohol.As we all know, drinking alcohol damages the liver. The liver is the body’s blood glucose regulator. When people with diabetes consume alcohol, alcohol interferes with the liver’s gluconeogenesis function, preventing the body from quickly raising blood glucose levels.In addition, […]
What physical activities can prevent diabetes
What physical activities can prevent diabetes? This is a topic of great concern to everyone, and in fact, there are many answers. If you are an office worker sitting at your desk, you can get up and move around every 30 minutes or so, or walk inside the office. After lunch, calories tend to accumulate […]