Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes

Author: Ye Hongying
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: Diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease. If it is not treated promptly, as the condition worsens, it can lead to various chronic complications. The complications affecting the heart, brain, and kidneys can severely threaten the patient's life and may cause varying degrees of disability, such as blindness or amputation, severely impairing the patient's quality of life. However, if diabetes is detected early and timely, effective treatment is provided, allowing the condition to be well-controlled, complications can be greatly reduced (or may not occur at all). Diabetes patients can live, study, and work just like healthy people and enjoy a normal lifespan. Diabetes is a group of common metabolic syndromes characterized by high blood sugar, caused by absolute or relative insulin deficiency in the body, reduced insulin sensitivity in target cells, or structural defects in insulin itself, as well as abnormal insulin receptor or post-receptor responses.