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Health Encyclopedia: Type 1 Diabetes

Long-Term Complications

Type 1 diabetes reduces the normal life span by an average of 5 to 8 years. However, survival rates are improving in all ethnic groups and both genders. Longer survival rates are probably due to improvements in monitoring and tighter control of blood glucose. There are two important approaches to preventing complications from type 1 diabetes:

Intensive control of blood glucose and keeping glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels below 7.0. This approach is proving to prevent ...

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High Cholesterol and Alzheimer's Disease: Is There a Connection?

By Dr. Kang , Health Expert

Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative cause of dementia in the elderly... Read more »

Making Sense of Cholesterol Ratios, Lipid Profiles and Your Heart Disease Risk Scores

By Lisa Nelson, RD, LN , Health Expert

It's very possible your MD orders lab work and you have no idea what or why you're having blood... Read more »

Seeing beyond the obvious

By Gretchen Becker , Health Expert

...levels that they forget about blood pressure and blood lipid levels and getting enough exercise... Read more »

The Effect of Cholesterol on Your Prostate

By Dr. Kang , Health Expert

Prostate cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world and the second leading cause of cancer... Read more »

Lipoprotein(a) – Influenced by Genetics and Linked to Heart Disease

By Lisa Nelson, RD, LN , Health Expert

Lipoprotein(a) is a type of cholesterol we all have; however, it's not a cholesterol routinely... Read more »

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Type 2 Diabetes

...speed the progression of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Diabetes can adversely affect blood lipid levels by lowering HDL ("good cholesterol") and increasing triglycerides. This can... Read more »

Menopause: Complications

After a woman reaches menopause, her average life expectancy is 30 to 40 years. During those years, however, she faces certain health risks due to lower levels of estrogen that cause... Read more »

Congestive Heart Failure Diagnosis

Doctorscan often make a preliminary diagnosis of heart failureby medical history and careful physical examination.The medical history risks for heart failure include:HypertensionDiabetesPoor... Read more »

Cholesterol Treatment and Drugs

...that drug treatments be tailored for raising or lowering specific lipids, depending on the patient's blood lipid picture:Statins are now the standard drugs for most people who require LDL-lowering... Read more »

High Cholesterol Diagnosis and Testing

A blood test for cholesterol should include the entire lipoprotein profile: LDL, total cholesterol, HDL, and triglycerides. It is very difficult to measure LDL levels by themselves, but LDL... Read more »

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