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Diabetes Basics Series: Downloadable Booklet Now Available
A diagnosis of diabetes can be surprising, upsetting, and concerning. It immediately raises a whole series of questions, creates anxiety about the future, and a sense of uncertainty regarding the implications of this diagnosis. Many people also experience a wide range of emotions ranging from anger, shame, guilt, and frustration, highlighting an urgent need for...
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Diabetes Basics Part 9: Diabetes Care is Preventive Care
I began this 9-part blog series on diabetes by describing how a healthy individual maintains normal glucose levels. I then focused on the basics of diabetes. To review, diabetes is a chronic disease that develops when the body can no longer maintain normal glucose levels. The high glucose levels can make you feel unwell. Over...
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Diabetes Basics Part 8: What Tools Can Effectively Lower Glucose Levels?
Several blogs on this platform discuss the role of modest changes in diet, physical activity, weight, and the benefit of CGM for achieving good glucose levels. These represent the foundation upon which an optimal regimen can be built, and like any foundation, it needs to be firm. Other blogs discuss specific glucose lowering drugs. This...
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Diabetes Basics Part 7: How Can The Long-Term Health Consequences of Diabetes Be Delayed or Prevented?
In the last piece of this blog series, we listed the long-term health consequences of diabetes. Because diabetes is, by definition, a disease that is defined by high glucose levels, exposure of the body to higher-than-normal glucose over long periods of time does cause many of these serious health consequences. But like everything in medical...
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Diabetes Basics Part 6: What Are the Long-Term Health Consequences of Diabetes?
As discussed previously, diabetes is very common and can cause a variety of non-specific symptoms. These may be obvious and interfere with sleep or daily routines. Or they may be so subtle that affected people may ignore them. As a result, about 1 out of 4 Canadians with diabetes do not know that they have...
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Diabetes Basics Part 5: What Are the Symptoms of Diabetes and When Should it Be Suspected?
Diabetes is a disease defined by an elevated glucose level. The symptoms that people experience as a result depend on the degree of elevation – higher levels usually mean more symptoms, but this varies from person to person. Unfortunately, these symptoms are not specific. Thus, they could be due to a wide variety of different...