From: Clara Nicholson, PharmD	Category: Diabetes
City: Memphis	Language: English

The focus of diabetes therapy has changed over time, and diabetics are commonly on multiple medications that help with different aspects of diabetes. She discusses the types of insulin.

From: Eva Feldman, MD, PhD	Category: Diabetes
City: Ann Arbor	Language: English

Diabetic nerve damage, or neuropathy, is the nerve damage that occurs that causes symptoms such as numbness and tingling, or pain in the toes feet and legs of diabetics. High blood sugars plays a role in the development of neuropathy, but having high cholesterol may also play a role in the development of diabetic neuropathy.

From: American College of Physicians Annals of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Report	Category: Diabetes
City: Philadelphia	Language: English

Mediterranean Diet Trumps Low-fat Diet for Diabetes Management, Patients on Low-Carbohydrate Mediterranean Diet Avoided Medication, Lost More Weight, and Decreased Some Coronary Risk Factors.

From: Joseph Williams, DO	Category: Diabetes
City: Farmington Hills	Language: English

Preventing eye complications of diabetes: Diabetics are prone to cataracts and diabetic retinopathy, which can cause blindness. To prevent complications controlling blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol will lower your risk. You should also avoid tobacco use, and you should exercise regularly. For symptoms such as blurry vision, eye pain, floaters, or change in vision, see a doctor.

From: Evan Schwarzwald, D.O., F.A.C.C.	Category: Diabetes
City: Great Neck	Language: English

Patients with diabetes can have multiple problems. With high blood sugar, (frequently in people with high blood pressure) the small blood vessels in the eye can swell and blood and cause vision problems and blindness. It can also cause kidney failure, neuropathy, which causes pain, and numbenss and tingling in the arms and legs. It also increases risk of heart disease and peripheral artery disease.

From: David Cooke, MD	Category: Diabetes
City: Baltimore	Language: English

Type 1 Diabetes can have long term complications in the kidney, heart, and eyes. With careful control of diabetes, the complication rate can be much lower, so diabetes can live a healthy life.

From: David Cooke, MD	Category: Diabetes
City: Baltimore	Language: English

Type 1 Diabetes is caused from the bodies inability to produce insulin from the pancreas. Currently there are no measures to prevent Type 1 Diabetes, which is Juvenile Diabetes in CHildren.

From: Sushma Reddy, MD	Category: Diabetes
City: Fort Gratiot	Language: English

Diabetes is a disease manifested by high blood sugar. Symptoms of diabetes include excessive thirst, frequent urination, nocturia- getting up in the night to urinate, blurred vision, vaginal infections, and weight loss. Risk factor include a family history of diabetes, being african american or hispanic, as well as obesity, and sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, kidney disease and amputation.

From: Seamus Sreenan, MBBCh, FRCPI, MD	Category: Diabetes
City:  -	Language: English

What is hypoglycaemia? Hypoglycemia is when the blood sugar becomes too low. The symptoms of hypoglycemia are sweating, shaking, racing heartbeat, confusion, seizures, or unconsciousness. When these symptoms occur, diabetes must check their blood sugar. If the sugar is low, they need to eat something with sugar, to raise the level.