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Hypoglycemia: Hypoglycemia is common in the first half of pregnancy, especially in the first quarter. Fortunately, the fetus tolerates well hypoglycemia.

Diabetic ketoacidosis: is a real danger, contrary to what occurs with hypoglycemia, is fatal to the fetus

Retinopathy (damage to the retina) retinopathy is already present in many women in early pregnancy, and may progress as it moves. Regular ophthalmoscopy is therefore important. Paradoxically, the progression of retinopathy may be related to the initiation of a strict metabolic control. When neovascularization occurs, can be controlled with photocoagulation, and it is therefore an indication for abortion.

Nephropathy (kidney damage): diabetic nephropathy in pregnant women is defined as the presence during the first half of pregnancy, proteinuria (protein in urine), persistent over 400 mg in 24 hours, in the absence of infection.

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It is normal for a person who diagnosed a serious illness of any kind experience some depression, but diabetics are much more likely.

The reasons are very simple, when you’re diagnosed with diabetes will automatically change your life, exercise, diet, medical examinations. The fact of having to control every aspect of your life is stressful, what you eat, the hours, how the exercise you should do, travel, what to do when you’re dining out, etc.. Also, you should check your calendar the dates for your visits with your doctor. The words diet, blood sugar, glucose, carbohydrates, complications, weight, make a permanent echo in your head. That, not counting the times you’ll wonder why. Definitely, having diabetes is not easy to assimilate.

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A new study says that increased consumption of sweetened beverages and smoothies or fruit flavored soft drinks, may have favored the emergence of new cases of diabetes and cardiovascular disease over the last decade.

These conclusions are based on the results of a simulation model created from large epidemiological studies conducted in the U.S.. According to this model, increased consumption of sweetened beverages between 1990 and 2000 favored the appearance of 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases of ischemic heart disease and 50,000 years of life with coronary heart disease over the decade .
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During normal pregnancy metabolic adaptations occur, aimed at correcting the imbalance that occurs when you need a higher nutritive supply to the fetus. One of these imbalances is that the body needs more insulin delivery to require a greater use of glucose.

Pregnant women undergoes many changes during its gestation process nausea, drowsiness, tiredness, weakness, among others but when they are diabetic are more noticeable changes.

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It’s an infection, ulceration and / or destruction of deep tissues associated with neurological abnormalities and various degrees of peripheral vascular disease in the lower extremities affecting patients with diabetes mellitus.

It is important to know not to be confused “diabetic foot” with the foot of a diabetic person, because not all people with diabetes develop this complication depends largely on who has control of the disease, intrinsic and environmental factors associated with patient and ultimately the evolutionary state of the underlying pathology.

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Diabetic retinopathy, is a lesions in the retina of the eye that appear in the evolution of diabetes, occurs in 40-50% of diabetic patients. It is the most serious ocular complication of diabetes, leading to cause blindness. 25% of blindness in our country have this origin.

What causes it?
The onset and progression of diabetic retinopathy are related to alterations in glycemic control. Hyperglycemia (blood glucose levels) causes lesions in the retina and in the arterial vessels. These injuries are aggravated by hypertension patients often suffer with diabetes.

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To understand insulin resistance, it helps to understand a little about how insulin works and its role in the body. Insulin is an essential hormone created in the pancreas, which is involved in the metabolism of sugars in the body. Without it, we can not turn the food we eat into usable energy.

When we eat something, a lot of digested food is converted into glucose, the main energy source of the body. The pancreas then responds to blood sugar levels by secreting insulin in increasing the flow of blood. Most cells in your body contain insulin receptors that help insulin bind to the cell. Once insulin binds to the cell, activate other receptor sites, allowing glucose to enter the cell and provide energy for life.

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Obesity is not just a cosmetic problem: obesity for many years is often the cause of fat and metabolic disorders – as well as diabetes. A study of obese mice show that the interplay between hormones and proteins might be to blame.

The main cause for the development of metabolic disorders such as diabetes meilitus is a reduced response of cells to the hormone insulin. In particular, the cells in the muscles, liver and adipose tissue respond to the poor blood sugar-regulating hormone. A group of researchers from Austria has now examined more closely in this context, the interaction of insulin and fat cells.

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Maren Brinker is a German national volleyball player and is currently under contract with USC Munster. What hardly anyone knows: Since 2002, the top athlete in type 1 diabetes is sick. This however does not prevent them from pursuing their sport still studying.

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Diabetes is the interplay of genetic and environmental factors causing the disease because of insufficient insulin secretion in absolute or relative lack of objective and reduce cell sensitivity to insulin, leading to elevated blood glucose levels, which in the body metabolic disorder. Typical symptoms for a little more than three, that is, more drinks, more food, more urine and weight loss. Long-term illness can be complicated by heart, brain, kidneys, eyes and nervous system and other diseases.

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