Gestational Diabetes
What causes gestational diabetes?
Doctors don't know exactly why some women develop gestational diabetes, but they have some clues.
Understanding diabetes and how it affects you and your loved ones is an important part of your journey.
What causes gestational diabetes?
What are the complications of diabetes?
Diabetes can lead to complications that affect many parts of the body, including the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, and nerves. Diabetes complications can be long-term (chronic) or short-term (acute).
Long-term complications can happen when blood glucose values remain high over a long period of time. Keeping blood glucose levels as near normal as possible, along with getting regular check-ups and blood tests, may help delay or prevent long-term diabetes complications. Some of the possible long-term complications of diabetes include the following:
Who is at risk for diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes
The Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes
By: Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES
The hallmark of all forms of diabetes is high blood sugar, also called hyperglycemia. This can cause several symptoms, including:
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic (long‐lasting) condition that occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin or cannot effectively use the insulin it does produce. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that is needed to move glucose (sugar) from the blood into the body’s cells, where it is used for energy(fuel). When insulin is missing or not working properly, glucose levels in the blood rise. Diabetes is diagnosed when blood tests show elevated levels of glucose in the blood.
Let's start at the beginning
You have diabetes. Now what?
In 2021, the International Diabetes Federation estimated that 1 in 10 adults worldwide had diabetes, and that almost half of these people were not yet diagnosed.1 Diagnosis is an important first step in managing your diabetes.
