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Swelling of the foot that can be acute or mild, increasing the temperature in the area, redness of the foot, dry skin area. Unfortunately, many people do not pay attention to these signals and wait until the fifth symptom appears: destruction and structural change of the foot that is very evident as it looks shorter and wider.

When a person has these conditions and not treated on time, your foot takes the form of a rocking chair, the arc disappears and the joints are destroyed, making it incapable of performing the most basic tasks.

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Acute complication of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus endangers the patient’s life and is characterized by urinary loss of water, potassium, ammonium and sodium in hypovolemia, electrolyte imbalance, very important elevation of blood glucose levels and degradation free fatty acids. This determines a state of acidosis which is often accompanied by coma.

It occurs with a frequency of 4-8 cases per 1000 diabetics per year, from 20% to 30% of cases occur in those who present with the disease. It occurs more frequently in type I diabetics and adults, typically between the youngest (28-38 years), with no predilection for any sex.

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Spending time on the feet is very important, especially for people with diabetes, as a small lesion may trigger the amputation of the foot and even leg.

Charcot foot is just one of many injuries that can present in patients with diabetes, mainly due to the lack of control leads to loss of sensitivity of the lower extremities.

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Diabetes is a disease that causes alterations in the smaller vessels, which are in the eyes and kidneys.

Diabetic retinopathy is divided into stages according to clinical features. It ranges from a little bleeding that can grow up to produce retinal detachment and glaucoma in advanced stages. Therefore, the most important thing is to control blood sugar levels to prevent future complications appear in the eyes.

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People with diabetes are more prone to foot problems. Diabetes can cause nerve damage, which means you can not feel a foot injury until a large sore or infection. Diabetes can also damage blood vessels.

Furthermore, diabetes affects the body’s immune system, decreasing the ability to fight infection. Small infections can worsen quickly and cause the death of the skin and other tissues, which may require amputation.

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The physical health of people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is worse than that of the healthy population. People affected by this group of diseases have an increased cardiovascular mortality, attributed to a risk from 1 to 5 times higher than present modifiable coronary risk factors such as obesity, smoking, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia. Specifically, in the case of schizophrenia life expectancy is shortened by up to ten years.

This is one of the main conclusions of consensus “Cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people with severe mental illness, which in Spain is supported by the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry, together with the Spanish Society of Psychiatry, the Spanish Society of Diabetes and Spanish Society of Cardiology.

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Care of patients with diabetes mellitus is kept to a minimum the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications, maintaining normal blood pressure, lipid profile and blood glucose.

Glycemic control is to maintain glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) between normal limitted, because we know that good glycemic control reduces the long-term risk of microvascular complications in both types of diabetes, 1 and 2. Researchers at ADVANCE and ACCORD studies examined the effect of glycemic control on the evolution of patients with type 2 diabetes and macrovascular and microvascular disease. Both studies failed to demonstrate that good glycemic control is associated with reduced cardiovascular risk.

Reports of a potential increase in mortality rates associated with intensive glycemic control resulted in a debate on the recommendations for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, specifically aiming to establish an optimal HbA1c. Researchers have suggested that in diabetics, hypoglycemia is a possible increased risk of mortality. Because intensive glycemic control increases the risk of hypoglycemia, with some drugs than with others, it is important to assess the risks associated with the various schemes to lower blood sugar. In two meta-analysis, researchers pooled data from several major works and concluded that intensive glycemic control has a positive effect on cardiovascular outcomes. However, these meta-analysis were limited by the limitations of clinical trials analyzed.

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Half of people with diabetes develop this serious ocular complications, which can cause blindness.

One of the most common causes of eye disease in diabetics, both type 2 and 1 (the insulin-dependent), is diabetic retinopathy. The problem is the lack of symptoms in the early stages of the disease, but if detected early, its effects are devastating. For the diagnosis will only need the patient’s medical history and perform a noninvasive test: the study of the fundus.

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A flu is very tiring for everyone. And if you have diabetes type 1 or type 2, is not only annoying, but until it can be complicated. When you have diabetes and flu, need special care.

For people with diabetes, type 1 or type 2, having a cold or flu is something that can be much more complicated than for other people. The flu and colds include symptoms that can interfere with your diabetes management, and medications to treat these diseases, too.

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Do not think that you will return neurotic for having diabetes, neuropathy means that your nervous system, which transmits messages from your brain to the rest of your body, it begins to be affected by diabetes without your realizing it.

Diabetic neuropathy is a disease of the nervous system caused by diabetes, and you can avoid it.

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