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Diabetes, also called sugar diabetes, is a condition in which the body cannot properly metabolize food energy. As a result, food energy, in the form of glucose, rises to unsafe levels in the bloodstream. Prolonged levels of high blood glucose can cause severe complications including blindness, amputation, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.
However, with proper lifestyle modifications and daily blood glucose monitoring, a person with diabetes can lead a perfectly normal and healthy life.
There is no doubt about it, lifestyle changes make a world of difference for the person who has diabetes.
Many health professionals say that diabetes has reached epidemic proportion in the United States. 23.6 million people in the U.S. have some form of diabetes. It’s estimated that 6 million of them do not even know they have the condition.
Diabetes in Oklahoma, as in the nation, is a severe problem. Please call us (405-330-2362) at the Draelos Metabolic Health Clinic in Edmond for a diabetes screening test today.
Read on for more information about diabetes and how it affects your health.
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