Sentences with phrase «diabetic complications include»

[13] Mechanisms that may account for lipoic acid's benefit in preventing diabetic complications include prevention of protein glycosylation [14] and inhibition of the enzyme aldose reductase, the latter of which subsequently inhibits conversion of glucose and galactose to sorbitol.

Diabetes is a serious condition — diabetic complications include heartattack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, impotence, painfull neuropathy, amputation, skin ulcerations.

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The prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in the United States is 9.3 percent and expected to increase, along with complications associated with diabetes that include diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults ages 20 to 74 in the United States.

Beyond determining eye health and corrective lens prescriptions, having an eye exam can alert health care professionals of several different health conditions including diabetic complications, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

The study, from researchers involved with the nationwide SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, looked at five health complications and co-morbidities of diabetes, including: retinopathy (eye disease), diabetic kidney disease, peripheral neuropathy (altered sensation in the feet), arterial stiffness and high blood pressure.

Roughly 50 to 70 percent of diabetic patients suffer from corneal complications that include alterations in vital corneal stem cells, causing lasting defects and eventually, vision impairment.

His lab, the largest at the Buck, has diverse projects underway, including: understanding the link between aging and nutrients, gut function, calcification, circadian clocks and diabetic complications.

Prepregnancy care in diabetic women of child - bearing age is still unsatisfying, due to consistently increasing rates of serious perinatal complications, including excess malformation rates and higher mortality (Table 3)(341).

Other uses include treatment of chest pain, depression, and diabetic complications.

This was evidenced by the loss of diabetic control, the intensification of hypoglycemia, the occurrence of presumed «insulin reactions» (including convulsions) that proved to be aspartame reactions, and the precipitation, aggravation or simulation of diabetic complications (especially impaired vision and neuropathy) while using these products... dramatic improvement of such features after avoiding aspartame, and the prompt predictable recurrence of these problems when the patient resumed aspartame products, knowingly or inadvertently.»

Clinical studies have shown that antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, CoQ10, lutein, zeaxanthin and beta - carotene can be very effective in reducing diabetic complications, including vascular, nerve and kidney damage, and damage to the retina of the eye.

More than 80,000 diabetics have suffered from strokes, heart failure or other complications including lethal heart attacks from this dangerous drug.

[15, 16] Accumulation of sorbitol has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various diabetic complications, including «sugar cataracts» where sorbitol accumulates in the lens.

Molecular Aspects of Lipoic Acid in the Prevention of Diabetes Complications Nutrition 2001 (Oct); 17 (10): 888 — 895 In experimental and clinical studies, LA markedly reduced the symptoms of diabetic pathologies, including cataract formation, vascular damage, and polyneuropathy.

Diabetics, including those well regulated at home, are at greater risk of stress induced complications.

As we have expanded our programs to include medical alert dogs, for instance, who can sense approaching seizures or diabetic complications, I get very specific as I evaluate a litter of puppies.

Vicky continues: «Common diabetic complications can include a lack of sensation in the foot, which can prevent many diabetics from realising that there are problems with their feet and increases the risk of infective ulcerations.

In this instance, the firm's client was elderly and had been an insulin dependent diabetic for many years, suffering from a number of diabetic related complications, including peripheral neuropathy, which led to a lack of protective sensation in his feet.

Denise has recently achieved settlements including: # 205,000 for death due to a failure to treat septicaemia; # 100,000 for an elderly diabetic client who suffered an amputation due to negligent care of his diabetic complications; # 70,000 for osteoporosis caused by steroid treatment and # 100,000 for a life threatening infection due to a failure to adequately evacuate the uterus following caesarean section.

Have you ever been medically diagnosed or treated for complications of diabetes, including insulin shock, diabetic coma, retinopathy (eye), nephropathy (kidney), neuropathy (nerve damage / pain), or used insulin prior to age 50?

Short - term complications of type 1 diabetes include diabetic ketoacidosis, requiring hospitalization, as well as episodes of hypoglycemia that can require emergency care.