Diabetes Treatment
Learning that you have an incurable, chronic disease like diabetes is understandably upsetting. On the positive side, diabetes is very treatable. What's more, as soon as you start telling people you have diabetes, you'll be surprised to discover how many people you know have it, too, and they are leading normal, productive lives. There's also a tremendous amount of new research on diabetes, and this means you'll continue to see new treatments in the years ahead.
The goals of treating diabetes are keeping your blood glucose under control and preventing the development of long-term complications. How you’ll try to achieve these goals depends on your age, weight, current diet and exercise habits, work schedule, prior health problems, and whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
You'll need a personalized treatment plan that takes all of these factors into consideration, and you’ll need the patience and determination to follow through with that plan every day. For most people with diabetes, this means carefully monitoring blood glucose levels, limiting certain foods, losing weight, exercising, and taking oral or injected medication.
Physician-developed and -monitored.
Original Date of Publication: 21 Apr 2009
Written by: Christopher D. Saudek, M.D.; Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D.
Last Reviewed: 05 May 2009
Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus), Diabetes Treatment Goals reprinted with permission from
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