Diabetes Disease
Diabetes Disease questions and answers
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Q: What are the statistics of someone having severe COPD, lung disease, diabetes and triple bypass surgery?
My dad needs triple bypass surgery but has severe emphzyma and lung disease. He also have diabetes. What are the risks and recovery (and how long) if he has the surgery? Is he better off not having the surgery?
A: First of all, good luck to you & your family...you're going through a lot right now. Remember that even when you have a family member who is sick, you need to take care of yourself, too.
Now, to answer your question: unfortunately, there isn't a good answer. As you've guessed, the more comorbidities (other problems) a patient has, the more difficult the surgery recovery. BUT...more important than having all these other conditions is how well they are controlled--a person with well controlled diabetes will do far better than a person with uncontrolled diabetes, for example.
Risks for any surgery, and especially heart surgery, are multiple. Your father's surgeon should be addressing these with him. Special consideration should be given to how easily he can come off the ventilator and his wound healing, if his diabetes is not well controlled.
A very important factor is your dad's motivation to do well with this surgery. A serious complication after heart surgery can be pneumonia, and getting up frequently and moving, as well as deep breathing and coughing (as you can imagine, not too pleasant after heart surgery) is of key importance to getting out of the hospital & doing well. If your dad isn't motivated, his prognosis just won't be as good.
As far as recovery, you can expect a TYPICAL heart surgical patient to be in the ICU for 1-2 days, then 4-5 days on a regular floor. Increasing activity a little each day, in the hospital and beyond is key.
There is no way we can say if he's better off not having the surgery. If you're not confident in the info the doc is giving you, go to another surgeon for another opinion.
Good luck.
Q: Are there any skeletal signs of diseases of development such as diabetes, heart disease, or obesity?
I'm trying to compare how we can see signs of things such as iron deficiency in ancient skeletal remains with diseases associated with the modern developed world like diabetes, obesity, heart disease. I just can't seem to find whether or not these diseases leave any kind of signs that can be recognized on the skeleton. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If there are technical terms to the signs, those would be very helpful.
A: http://www.springerlink.com/content/595533h426h58004/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202805.htm
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B73DX-4GJVB8M-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1059780765&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ca8dff879a96d5bb42a369c2de94bec8
http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/120/3/238.pdf
Q: How does one's food pattern over time contribute to the development of Diabetes, Heart disease, Osteoporosis,
How does one's food pattern over time contribute to the development of Diabetes, Heart disease, Osteoporosis, or Cancer?
A: Diabetes - insulin is the only substance that decreases out blood sugar and is secreted by cells in our pancrease. if you eat too much sugar and are genetically predisposed to it, the amount of insulin your body can produce will decrease leading to high sugar levels after you eat. sugar is bad for small vessels causing blindness, leg pain, etc. (basically, our pancreas cells have only so much insulin they can spit out during our life time. keep in mind that having fat will make you more insulin resistant as well so losing weight helps diabetes)
Heart disease - your diet contributes about 15% to your cholesterol, the rest is genetic. Having high cholesterol predisposes you to building artherosclerotic plaques (blockages) in your arteries causing what is known as coronary artery disease (heart disease)
Osteoporosis - you put on bone mass until you're about 30 and then you start loosing it progresively. why this is important is because you have to eat enough calcium before you're 30 years old so that you start off with a more bone mass when it starts to deteriorate.
As far as cancer goes, there have been some links: smoked/BBQ food to stomach cancer, alcohol to breast, esophageal, stomach, oral cancer (among others). there are others.
Q: i need Help finding a diet for a person with heart disease and diabetes?
My mother has a heart disease on top of diabetes and is trying to find a diet that suites her. She is on different medications that disable her from eating certain things or how much she eats of it...if anyone can help with a good diet please let me know.
A: I follow loosely the South Beach phase 2 diet. If you watch the amounts of fats in this it is excellent for both lowering glucose levels and for portion control. I have not gained any weight from the amount of meds required for both these diseases.
Q: Is it true that to be a real Canadian you have to have heart disease or diabetes?
It seems like everyone including myself become sick with Cancer, Heart disease/Stroke, Diabetes, or some kind or rare disorder. Is it the food, is it the air, is it the water, what is causing all the illness?
A: well canadian people do a a leaf on they're flag so yes
Q: What is the physiological basis of the disease diabetes mellitus?
What is the significance of the rnellitus suffix?
Individuals with the disease are classified into two main groups.
What are they and what is the basis of the classification system used?
A: The suffix mellitus comes from the latin meaning sweetened with honey because the blood sugar levels go high with diabetes mellitus. The physiologic basis of diabetes mellitus is that human cells require insulin for sugar to enter the cell. With type 1 diabetes, the islet cells of the pancreas do not secrete insulin because they have been destroyed by the body. Without insulin the sugar cannot enter the cells. With type 2 diabetes, the body's cells are resistant to the effect of insulin. So even though there is insulin, the sugar still cannot enter the cells.
Q: What is life expectancy for male in early 60s with End Stage Renal Disease, Diabetes, and CHF?
In December last year my husband started 3-day a week dialysis after many hospitalizations and has been diagnosed with ESRD. He also has diabetes type 2, CHF, and an AFIB condition. I have read some answers here regarding life expectancy -that with ESRD and with no transplant, approx 5 year life expectancy but that this is shortened by percentages due to the other conditions.
A: Close to none, I give you three months
Q: Does diabetes link to cardiovascular disease and should I eat white chocolate?
I have cardiovascular disease and I was reading up on it in my book. I encountered that many things are similar to diabetes, do they link and can I get diabetes? Also my doctor told me that my diet should consist of a moderate amount of dark chocoate, can I eat white/ milk chocolate too?
A: dark chocolate is the only chocolate you should eat for your health. try and get 70% or higher cocoa. milk chocolate is better than white chocolate... white chocolate isn't even real chocolate. milk chocolate isn't good for you b/c it is too high in saturated fat and doesn't contain enough antioxidants to be considered good for you.
yes, diabetes is linked to cardiovascular disease. if you eat crap, and don't exercise, you will probably become diabetic at some point in your life
Q: What are the common threads for dietary recommendations for heart disease, cancer and diabetes?
Nutrition impacts the three major causes of death in the United States - heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. There are specific dietary recommendations for each disease. What are the common 'threads' that these recommendations have?
A: A person has to take care of their body fro9m the begining to have good health later.
Many tendencies to different deases and defects are inherityed from those before us. We all must die one day and it will be blamed on one thing or another but seldom they say he died because it was time for him to die. We do wear out and are no longer able to maintain. Some much earlier than others.
Most of the time once you have one of the three or even all of them the diet may give you a little mote time but you are going to die.
Take care of you from the begining and your chanses of living to past 100 will be very good.
Q: Is Charcot Marie Tooth Disease associated with Diabetes Mellitus?
I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes about 3 years ago. It has progerssively gotten worse. I was diagnosed with Diabetic Polyneuropathy last year as well. I was always described as a "clumbsy" child. My mother said I was the only person she knew that could fall down without taking a step.
My neuro says I have a gait disturbance but has done nothing as far as telling my why.
I had some foot pain the last three days and had an x-ray done. My Internist told me I have arthritis and bone spurs but it could be Charcot Marie Tooth Disease.
Is there any information out there linking Charcot Marie Tooth Disease and Diabetes?
A: Are you confused on the name? Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is named for the physicians who identified the disease, Charcot, Marie, and Tooth. It is not the same as Charcot's foot disease, a neuropathic joint disease that is a common complication of diabetes mellitus. http://www.neurologychannel.com/charcot/
For more info on Charcot's foot disease, look here: http://www.diabetes.usyd.edu.au/foot/Charcot1.html
Q: My Dad has Diabetes, Crohn's Disease and Anemia and my Mom has Asthma. Will I get/die one of these diseases?
My Dad isn't unhealthily overweight and neither is my Mom but most of my family suffers from some kind of disease. Mostly Diabetes.
*get/die from
A: hi niners, I am a female crohn's pt. for 28 yrs. dxed at the age of 12. A person can live with crohn's for many yrs. provided they take their meds, keep all doctors appts., keep all test appts., don't smoke, don't drink, and live a healthy life style.
For more accurate information, check out the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America's website. They have updated information ranging from the newest treatments, newest surgical techniques, diets, coping skills, to locating a local support chapter near you where family members are always welcome to educate themselves about IBD.
They have a hotline and a live chat during the week which is run by healthcare experts well versed in CD and UC. There is also a community forum where pts, family members, and friends can post questions to others in the same situation.
CD won't kill you. It's not like cancer. As long as the pt. does everything in their power to stay healthy and abide by what the doctor tells them, they can live a very long life.
Q: What's The Link between diabetes and Heart Disease?
I know that Triglycerides strengthen the link between diabetes and heart disease but how does that go?
A: Several of our organs do not run primarily or sugar, but on fat.
The heart is one of them. And the diabetic heart takes up more fat and burns more fat than it needs. So the hearts of people with diabetes tend to have more fat in them, which can
cause the heart to not squeeze so well. That's what is called cardiomyopathy. The same problem may happen in the small blood vessels. That's the link triglycerides strengthens between diabetes and heart disease.
Insulin resistance in cells that line blood vessels makes the vessels susceptible to damage from fatty acids. Then, high blood sugars and high fatty acids can cause the heart to put down extra scar tissue, making it so the heart cant expand and contract as it should. Therefore, fatty acids and triglycerides are contributing to the onset of diabetes by damaging the insulin-producing beta cells.
Q: is diabetes considered a glycogen storage disease?
i am a type 1 diabetic and filling out college scholarship information and when i got to the "disabilities" section diabetes is not an option but glycogen storage disease is so im wondering if diabetes is included in that? or should i just mark off medical disability?
i know what diabetes is. i just am confused as to why diabetes is not an opption when it seems like everything else under the sun is. i dont consider myself disabled but i dont consider lots of the options in this section disabled either. so idk?
A: No, I don't think so, glycogen storage disease should be something else, glycogen is a complex form of sugar than can be broken down into glucose when there is a need for it. If anything I think it would fall more likely to hypoglycemia, maybe there is an a (other) you could mark and name diabetes, if not it doesn't matter just make sure your friend now you are a diabetic in case of an emergency.
Q: Is there a connection between Addisons Disease, Diabetes, and PCOS?
My ( maternal) Grandma died of an Addison Crisis at 40. My first cousin has type 1 diabetes, and my sister and I both have Insulin Resistance, I also have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Is there a correlation?
A: Yes, there can be. The type 2 of addison's (schmidt's) does include diabetes. I suppose because of it's link to hyperinsulinemia, it can also be a factor in PCOS.
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Q: Is Diabetes the only disease you have to take needles everyday?
Or is there another disease that requires the same treatment (needles everday). i know diabetics have to take it for the insulin but are there other diseases that requires needles for a different reason than diabetes
A: No, there are tons of diseases that require daily, weekly, etc. shots. ex. Multiple Sclerosis