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Do anti-diabetic tablets affect the kidneys?
Your diabetes medications are safe for your kidney but your uncontrolled diabetes is not. This article is going to bust certain myths about diabetes and its treatment. It widely believed that diabetes is of two types, ie., type 1 and type 2. Today, there are more than 20 types of diabetes and each carries with…
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LARGE SCALE CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMS IN DIABETES
During the last 10 years, Dr.Mohan’s Diabetes Education Academy (DMDEA) has been collaborating with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to conduct various certificate courses related to diabetes in order to improve the diabetes care in the country. In this article, we talk about 3 such courses; 1) The Certificate Course in Evidence Based…
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Polished white rice and diabetes link
The Visual Appeal Of Snow-White Rice May Have Made It India’s Preferred Staple, But the Nutritional Poverty Is Pushing Us Toward A Diabetic Disaster Scientists From 21 Countries Engage, Analyse And Put Forward A Definitive Study On Why We Need To Choose The Right Rice It is said, food is a memory that lasts a…
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The A to Z of Blood Sugar Levels
Everything you wanted to know about this Sweet Disorder How Sour is Sugar? Sugar is synonymous with ‘a sprinkle of joy’. Abnormal blood sugar levels, however, are a different proposition altogether. Diabetes mellitus, the disorder characterised by high blood sugar levels, is a common condition that afflicts a large percentage of the population especially in…
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WHAT IS DIABETES – An A to Z to make life easier for patients
What is Diabetes? Put very simply, diabetes is a disorder in which the body cannot control sugar levels in the blood. The term diabetes is a short form of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes means ‘to pass through’, in Greek. And mellitus comes from Latin, meaning ‘sweet’. Hence diabetes mellitus refers to the sweet urine that people…
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Diabetes during Pregnancy
Dr. Bhavadharini Balaji & Dr. V Mohan During pregnancy, placenta gives nutrients and oxygen for the baby. The placenta also makes other hormones. During later part of pregnancy, certain hormones produced by the placenta can block insulin. When insulin gets blocked, its called insulin resistance. This leads to glucose staying in the blood and not…
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Is Type 1 Diabetes a Disability?
I begin my series with the affirmation that every individual born into this world deserves to live a useful life and with dignity and respect, using all the intellectual and bodily resources they are naturally endowed with. Viewed with this perspective, your child should be given every opportunity by your family, community as well as…
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Dr. Mohan’s – ‘A Home Away from Home’
‘Sugar and Spice – Blog series’ by Swati Amar For a long time I have been contemplating on doing a series of articles about families that are living with a Type 1 diabetic child, the travails of the child, how the families create a nourishing and supportive culture to nurture the child, how they have…
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DIABETES AND DEPRESSION: A TWO WAY RELATIONSHIP
It is well known that the prevalence of diabetes is increasing rapidly all over the world and particularly in India. According to the ICMR-INDIAB study, the prevalence of diabetes in India in adults is 7.5%.
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Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccinations – Are they useful for people with diabetes?
During these times of COVID, one thought which is on everyone’s mind is WHEN THE COVID VACCINE WILL COME? Now that’s a good question to ask because nobody is really sure of the answer. However, the good news is that they are not one, two, three, but probably over ten different companies working on the…