Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia, which is caused by insulin secretion defect or impaired biological function, or both. Long-term hyperglycemia in diabetes leads to chronic damage, dysfunction and chronic complications of various tissues, especially eyes, kidneys, heart, blood vessels and nerves, which can spread all over important organs of the whole body, leading to macroangiopathy and microangiopathy, leading to a decline in the quality of life of patients. Acute complications can be life-threatening if they are not treated in time. This disease is lifelong and difficult to cure.
How close is diabetes to us?
In order to arouse people's awareness of diabetes, since 1991, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have designated November 14th as "United Nations Diabetes Day".
Now that diabetes is getting younger and younger, everyone should be careful about the occurrence of diabetes! The data show that one in 10 people in China suffers from diabetes, which shows how high the incidence of diabetes is. What is even more frightening is that once diabetes occurs, it can't be cured, and you have to live in the shadow of sugar control for life.
As one of the three foundations of human life activities, sugar is an indispensable energy source for us. How does having diabetes affect our lives? How to judge and prevent?
How to judge that you have diabetes?
At the beginning of the disease, many people didn't know they were sick because the symptoms were not obvious. According to "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in China (2020 Edition)", the awareness rate of diabetes in China is only 36.5%.
If you often have these symptoms, it is recommended to have a blood sugar measurement. Be alert to your own physical changes in order to achieve early detection and early control.
Diabetes itself is not terrible, but the complications of diabetes!
Poor control of diabetes will cause serious harm.
Diabetic patients are often accompanied by abnormal metabolism of fat and protein. Long-term hyperglycemia can cause various organs, especially the eyes, heart, blood vessels, kidneys and nerves, or organ dysfunction or failure, leading to disability or premature death. Common complications of diabetes include stroke, myocardial infarction retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic foot and so on.
● The risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in diabetic patients is 2-4 times higher than that in non-diabetic people of the same age and gender, and the onset age of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is advanced and the condition is more serious.
● Diabetic patients are often accompanied by hypertension and dyslipidemia.
● Diabetic retinopathy is the main cause of blindness in adult population.
● Diabetic nephropathy is one of the common causes of renal failure.
Severe diabetic foot can lead to amputation.
Prevention of diabetes
● Popularize the knowledge of diabetes prevention and treatment.
● Maintain a healthy lifestyle with a reasonable diet and regular exercise.
● Healthy people should test fasting blood glucose once a year from the age of 40, and pre-diabetic people are advised to test fasting blood glucose once every six months or 2 hours after meals.
● Early intervention in pre-diabetic population.
Through diet control and exercise, the body mass index of overweight and obese people will reach or approach 24, or their weight will drop by at least 7%, which can reduce the risk of diabetes in pre-diabetic people by 35-58%.
Comprehensive treatment of diabetic patients
Nutrition therapy, exercise therapy, drug therapy, health education and blood sugar monitoring are five comprehensive treatment measures for diabetes.
● Diabetic patients can obviously reduce the risk of diabetic complications by taking measures such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood pressure, adjusting blood lipid and controlling weight, and correcting bad living habits such as quitting smoking, limiting alcohol, controlling oil, reducing salt and increasing physical activity.
Self-management of diabetic patients is an effective method to control the condition of diabetes, and self-blood glucose monitoring should be carried out under the guidance of professional doctors and/or nurses.
● Actively treat diabetes, control the disease steadily, delay complications, and diabetic patients can enjoy life as normal people.
Diabetes solution
In view of this, the HbA1c test kit developed by Hongwei TES provides solutions for the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diabetes:
Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) determination kit (fluorescence immunochromatography)
HbA1c is a key parameter to monitor the regulation of diabetes and evaluate the risk of microvascular complications, and it is a diagnostic standard of diabetes. Its concentration reflects the average blood sugar in the past two to three months, which is helpful to evaluate the effect of glucose control in diabetic patients. Monitoring HbA1c is helpful to discover the chronic complications of diabetes, and can also help to distinguish stress hyperglycemia from gestational diabetes.
Sample type: whole blood
LoD：≤5%
Post time: Nov-14-2023