Return to IndexStep 1: What is Diabetes?Step 2: Who Gets Type 2 Diabetes?Step 3: How Do You Know if You Have Diabetes?Step 4: You're in Charge! Designing a Treatment PlanStep 5: Monitor Your Blood SugarStep 6: Lose Weight and Follow the Right DietStep 7: Exercise Step 8: Drugs and InsulinStep 9: Treat Low Blood SugarStep 10: Avoid Long-Term ComplicationsKey PointsGlossary
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Over 20 million Americans have diabetes and almost one-third are not aware that they have it. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, leg infections, and other serious health problems. In fact, diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in the United States.
By following the steps below and working with your healthcare team, you can prevent or control diabetes and even reduce your risk of long-term complications.
- I. Understanding Your Diabetes
- Step 1: What is diabetes?
- Step 2: Who gets type 2 diabetes?
- Step 3: How do you know if you have diabetes?
- II. Managing Your Diabetes
- Step 4: You're in charge - design a treatment plan
- Step 5: Monitor your blood sugar
- Step 6: Lose weight and follow the right diet
- Step 7: Exercise
- Step 8: Drugs and insulin
- III. Knowing the Consequences of Diabetes
- Step 9: Treat low blood sugar
- Step 10: Avoid long-term complications
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Review Date:
7/8/2012 Reviewed By: Nancy J. Rennert, MD, Chief of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Norwalk Hospital, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Previoulsy reviewed by Ari S. Eckman, MD, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. (5/13/2010) |
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