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Diabetes - Health Tips
Introducing Patricia DiPietro, RN, BSN, CDE, and Mary Schneider, RN, BSN, CDE, Diabetes Education Center, St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital, to discuss the signs, symptoms, and risk factors for Diabetes.
Diabetes affects over 24 million people in the United States. Most have type 2 diabetes exerting symptoms such as blurry vision, always tired, losing weight without trying, cuts and sores that don't heal, always being hungry or thirsty. Type 1 diabetes means the body does not make any insulin requiring people to take insulin each day. Type 2 diabetes involves insulin resistance where people do not make enough insulin. Type 3 is gestational diabetes is developed during pregnancy because the growing fetus makes you less sensitive to insulin.
Risk factors include sedentary lifestyle, family history, overweight, over the age of 40, high blood pressure, history of gestational diabetes, and smoking as well as certain ethnic groups. If you exhibit signs and symptoms you should visit your health care provider.
At the St. Joseph's Wayne campus there is a self-management education center for diabetes to help those diagnosed.
