If you are suffering from diabetes, you need to take special care of your kidneys. While diabetes affects all the crucial organs of the body, kidney failure in diabetics is way too common. High sugar levels erode the capillaries of the organs which slowly and steadily makes the kidneys dysfunctional. Diabetes kidney disease is common in people who …

We talk a lot about how diabetes affects the integral organs of the body, a reason why this condition is called a silent killer. People who suffer from type II diabetes can live with the conditions for years before it comes to the fore. By the time one gets diagnosed with the same the damage …

There are around 72 million people with diabetes in India and these numbers are expected to increase to 134 million in the next 10-15 years. Uncontrolled diabetes can affect many organs and the kidney is one of the most serious of these complications. On World Kidney Day, its time we start paying attention to this issue. …

In the bygone days, doctors were given a status in society which was next only to God. Those were days when we had a ‘family doctor’ was not just a physician but a friend, philosopher and guide. All that changed with increasing specialization and super-specialization in medicine. This has led to distancing the patient from the doctor. …

As World Diabetes Day comes up, here’s how India can protect its people in the time of growing non-communicable diseases Till the 1990s, the majority of deaths in India were due to communicable diseases. Only Kerala and Goa showed a different trend, with more than 50 per cent of the deaths resulting from non-communicable diseases …

A New Year, to me, has always been about new hopes, new beginnings. I stick to my resolutions religiously. I tell people that once we make a commitment to ourselves, especially by writing down a list of things we want to achieve, a divine help comes in various forms and one by one all the …

New Delhi: Around 50 million people are protected from getting diabetesand that is a huge victory for India, said Dr V Mohan, in ETHealthworld’s webinar on the topic “Preventing Clinical Inertia in Diabetes”. Dr Mohan is the chairman and Chief of Diabetology at Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre. of treatment intensification in a patient not at evidence based goals for …

Two of my grandparents had diabetes, though neither of my parents have it. Does it skip a generation and come to the next? As a rule, diabetes does not skip generations. However, if the parents have been careful, maintained ideal body weight, exercised regularly and have been eating healthy, they can avoid diabetes. On the …

Dr. ASWIN MUKUNDAN, Consultant, Calicut DMDSC Ambulatory Glucose Profile or AGP is one of the latest additions to the revolutionary changes happening in the field of diabetes and its treatment. This tool has incorporated the importance of glycaemic variability in preventing the complications of diabetes. In simpler terms, the variations in blood glucose in a …

The double burden of malnutrition places India in a difficult position, because there cannot be one single nutrition health message for the whole country. One way in which the public can be educated about diet and nutrition is to know what exactly is the composition of the various foods that they eat. India suffers from …