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Health Encyclopedia: Type 1 Diabetes Prevention

Prevention

Fingerstick blood tests are now available that can test for autoantibodies that identify children who are at high risk for developing type 1 diabetes. At this time, however, there is no way to prevent type 1 diabetes and all preventive therapies are investigative. Until there are ways to prevent the condition, such screening tests are expensive and provide little value.

Although insulin is the mainstay of type 1 diabetes treatment, research is ongoing to develop other approaches that mi...

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Expert & Community Posts

I is for Insulin

By David Mendosa , Health Expert

...yet, in 1995.The current (June-July 2007) issue of Diabetes Health covers the question in Linda... Read more »

Thinking About Genes

By Gretchen Becker , Health Expert

...When it comes to "diabetes genes," the situation is complex. There is a fairly uncommon form of... Read more »

The Diversity of Diabetes

By Dr. Fran Cogen , Health Expert

...Insulin is produced, but it cannot be released due to complex biochemical channel malfunctions.... Read more »

Short-Acting Insulin Isn’t Short for Most Type 2s

By David Mendosa , Health Expert

...whom you rely on for your professional guidance on diabetes made the same mistake.When they... Read more »

Lettuce and Diabetes

By Gretchen Becker , Health Expert

...the hallmark of type 1 diabetes. But the pathway is complex. Therapeutic insulin is usually... Read more »

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Diabetes and Anemia

...medical condition in your blood when either your hemoglobin or hemocrit are below normal. Hemoglobin is a complex molecule in your red blood cells that carries the oxygen to the tissues in your... Read more »

Diabetes Diet: General Dietary Guidelines

...method.Healthy eating habits along with good control of blood glucose are the basic goals in managing this complex disease, and several good dietary methods are available to meet them. General... Read more »

Type 1 Diabetes: Diagnosis - Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

...they are tested in the morning.Glucose Tolerance Test. The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is more complex than the FPG and may overdiagnose diabetes in people who do not have it. Some experts... Read more »

Diabetes: Type 2: Medications

...that contains glucose or lactose, not table sugar. This is because acarbose inhibits the breakdown of complex sugar and starches, which includes table sugar.Incretin Mimetics (Exenatide)Incretin... Read more »

Diabetes Diet: Major Food Components in a healthy diabetic diet

...sugar. Both the amount and type of carbohydrate affect blood glucose. Carbohydrate types are either complex (as in starches) or simple (as in fruits and sugars). One gram of carbohydrates equals... Read more »

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