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People with diabetes may experience this symptom, which involves feeling tired or lacking energy, even after a full night's sleep.
What is Fatigue?
This type of diabetes, often diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, occurs when the immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
This test gives an average of your blood sugar over the last 2-3 months, helping to diagnose diabetes.
What is the HbA1C Test?
What is the Hemoglobin A1C Test?
Husband to Indian actress Priyanka Chopra, singer and member of the Jonas Brothers. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 13. He is an advocate for diabetes awareness and has his own foundation focused on the condition.
Who is Nick Jonas?
This common method for managing diabetes involves using a device to check your blood sugar levels at home multiple times a day.
What is blood sugar monitoring (or using a glucometer)?
This condition, often seen in individuals with uncontrolled diabetes, causes the body to lose more fluids due to high blood sugar, leading to an overwhelming sensation of thirst.
What is polydipsia?
What is excessive intake of water?
This type of diabetes is most common in adults and is primarily linked to lifestyle factors such as poor diet and lack of exercise, where the body becomes resistant to insulin.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
This test measures your blood sugar after you fast for at least 8 hours, commonly used to check for diabetes.
What is the Fasting Blood Sugar Test?
Famous for his roles in forest gump and voice of woody in Toy Story, this actor was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Who is Tom Hanks?
This type of medication is often prescribed for Type 2 diabetes to help the body use insulin more effectively or to reduce blood sugar production in the liver.
What is metformin?
Frequent passing of water, especially during the night, is a common symptom of this condition, often seen in people with uncontrolled diabetes due to high blood sugar levels.
What is polyuria?
What is excessive urination?
Both of these types of diabetes involve problems with insulin, in one the body attacks insulin-producing cells, while the other type the body becomes resistant to insulin. These two types are:
What are Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes?
In this test, you drink a sugary liquid, then your blood sugar is checked to see how your body handles the sugar.
What is the [Oral] Glucose Tolerance Test?
This former Miss Universe (1988) from Trinidad and Tobago advocated who Diabetes Awareness.
Who is Wendy Fitzwilliam?
People with Type 1 diabetes must rely on this, a hormone that helps the body use sugar for energy, usually injected or delivered via a pump.
What is insulin?
This condition, caused by damage to the blood vessels in the retina due to high blood sugar, is a leading cause of blindness among adults with diabetes.
What is diabetic retinopathy?
This form of diabetes occurs during pregnancy and typically resolves after childbirth, though women who experience it are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life.
What is Gestational diabetes?
This simple test measures your blood sugar at any time of the day, often used if you're showing symptoms of diabetes.
What is the random blood sugar test?
He is the president of the Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago.
Who is Dr. Andrew Dhanoo?
A key part of managing diabetes, that helps lower blood sugar by increasing insulin sensitivity. It involves getting active and burning calories.
What is exercise?
Often Abrreviated into PCOS
This diabetes related disease affects women and is a hormonal disorder that can cause irregular periods, excessive hair growth, and ovarian cysts, and is a common cause of infertility in women.
What is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome ?
This rare form of diabetes affects children and young adults, and is caused by a genetic mutation affecting insulin production, but it doesn’t involve the immune system attacking the pancreas like Type 1.
What is Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY)?
This test checks for sugar in your urine and may suggest high blood sugar levels, though it’s not commonly used alone for diagnosis.
What is the Urine Glucose Test?
This renowned American television and radio host holds the world record for "the longest-running television show hosted by the same person, on the same network and in the same time slot " conducting over 60,000 interviews
Who is Larry King
This approach, which emphasizes whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats, helps manage blood sugar levels and prevent complications of diabetes.
What is the Mediterranean diet (or a balanced, diabetic-friendly diet)?