One doctor told me before that the moment you're diagnosed with diabetes, you're at least 5 years late. Tinuod na Enz?
I guess it depends on the severity and how long you have been undiagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes, if untreated and undiagnosed can mask many diseases.
You see, when a patient is suffering from diabetes (either type 1 = infantile/juvenile form due to the loss of pancreatic b-cells by autoimmune factors), and (type 2 = adult form, has great pro-genetic affinity, meaning has genetic passover, related to size, ethnic background, eating habits, smoking habits, etc).
If a patient has cardiovascular problems, meaning has hypertension, occlusion, has emphysema and has any problems that require him/her to take medication, having diabetes can actually mask the side effects and clinical symptoms of some of these conditions, that can become life threatening.
For example, one of the effects of diabetes, especially if it is undiagnosed, is PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY. Peripheral neurapathy is wen the distal limbs become numb due to the weakening of the plexus of nerves distal to the thoracodorsal region of the body because of diabetes. This can also mean numbness on our arms, and fingertips and faces.
Now, a person who has cardiovascular problems will know that he or she has a heart attack/ and or having one because of strong chest pain, and numbing feeling on the left arm that radiates to the back. So a person who is having these symptoms will know they are having a heart attack and thus call for help and thus be saved.
However, if a patient is an undiagnosed diabetic, he will feel no chest pain or numbing of the arms, fingers, and back when they have a heart attack because this is secondary to the peripheral neuropathy that is caused by the DIABETES, undiagnosed.
And thus, will die of MI or some kind of CVD.
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Luckily we can screen patients by their sugar levels, glucose and glucagon levels, their heating habits, and thus implement therapy on that basis. If a patient is pre-diabetic we can implement oral hypoglycemic drugs to reduce glucose levels and thus effectively prevent the onset of full-blow diabetes and its effects.
And if a patient is diabetic, we can prevent the ill effects of the disease by staying on the medication regimen by taking ultralente, lente, glibobizides, and any other diabetic drugs, religiously. So as to maintain insulin homeostasis.
Because, in the end, the MOA of the disease (mechanism of action) is a deviation of proper INSULIN production and reception.
So we treat this disease and we prevent it from affecting other systems by: maintaining insulin levels and prevent and warning the patient from doing HIGH RISK lifestyles such as:
1. Evade high fatty food
2. Cessation of smoking
3. Cessation of high drinking
4. Implementing an exercise regimen
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Any disease, Father, is preventable. And any disease can be treated, medication is out there. In the end, how it affects the patient is secondary to how the patient is responsible in taking their medication and implementing a lifestyle change.
I hope that explained your question.
Yours In Christ,
Bran
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