Diabetes Basics
This condition occurs when blood glucose levels are too high.
What is diabetes?
This is the most common type of diabetes.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
This common symptom makes a person feel the need to drink more fluids.
What is increased thirst?
This device can measure blood sugar using a small drop of blood from a finger stick.
What is a glucose meter?
This healthy habit can improve insulin sensitivity and help manage blood sugar.
What is regular exercise?
This hormone acts like a key that helps glucose enter the body's cells.
What is insulin?
This type of diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
People with diabetes may experience this symptom when their vision becomes unclear.
What is blurred vision?
This blood test measures average blood glucose over approximately the past two to three months.
What is the A1c test?
These nutrients have a major impact on blood glucose levels and are found in foods such as bread, rice and fruit.
What are carbohydrates?
This organ produces insulin.
What is the pancreas?
This condition occurs when blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough for a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
What is prediabetes?
This complication involves damage to nerves and may cause numbness or tingling in the hands and feet.
What is neuropathy?
Before this type of blood glucose test, a person typically avoids food and drinks other than water for at least eight hours.
What is a fasting blood glucose test?
This healthy habit is important because meal choices can greatly affect blood sugar.
What is healthy eating or meal planning?
This is the body's main source of energy and comes largely from carbohydrates.
What is glucose?
This type of diabetes develops in some people during pregnancy.
What is gestational diabetes?
This eye complication can develop due to diabetes and may lead to blindness.
What is retinopathy?
This is the most common oral medication used to help manage Type 2 diabetes.
What is metformin?
According to the information provided, this is the recommended daily exercise duration and frequency to help lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
What is 30 minutes a day, at least five days a week?
This term describes high blood sugar.
What is hyperglycemia?
This type of diabetes is associated with insulin resistance, in which the body's cells do not respond normally to insulin.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
This life-threatening complication, often associated with Type 1 diabetes, occurs when the body produces acidic ketones because it lacks sufficient insulin.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)?
This technology tracks glucose levels throughout the day, often using a sensor worn on the body.
What is a continuous glucose monitor (CGM)?
These three health measurements are especially important to manage because diabetes increases the risk of heart disease.
What are weight, blood pressure and cholesterol?