What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease where your blood glucose (sugar) levels are above normal. It results from the inability of the glucose to get into your cells. As a result your cells are starving for their food (glucose). It would be like a starving person surrounded by tables of wonderful food but their mouth has been sewn closed and they can’t eat.
About 17 million Americans are believed to have diabetes and one-third of those patients don’t even know they have it. Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations. Diabetes is the 6th leading cause of death in the US. And most diabetics develop heart disease. In fact, just having diabetes carries the same risk of having a heart attack as someone who has already had such an event. Therefore it is very important for patients that have diabetes to also have a physician that closely monitors and treats their cholesterol levels as well as their blood pressure. Additionally, any use of tobacco products multiplies the risks and should be stopped.
According to online source Eye clinics that screen diabetics who don’t make it into a specialist’s office may help identify eye problems early on, new study findings report.A review of recent research found that relatively simple exams by non-specialists who don’t dilate the pupils are accurate at spotting early cases of the diabetes-related eye disorder known as diabetic retinopathy.
This type of screening “offers a quick, convenient and cost-effective way to screen for diabetic retinopathy,” study author Dr. Hugh Taylor at the University of Melbourne in Australia told Reuters Health.With the appropriate camera, clinic staff and technicians can safely and effectively screen for changes without the need for expert ophthalmologists to be on site and (avoid) the time-consuming need for dilating drops that will blur the vision for hours after the examination.
Earlier this year, a study suggested that nearly 30 percent of Americans with diabetes over the age of 40 may have diabetic retinopathy, with four percent of this group affected severely enough that their vision is threatened.
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