Questions tagged [type-1-diabetes]
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What is the Causes and Results of Charcot Foot for Diabetics?
Charcot Foot Disease is an affliction in a small percentage of, typically long-term diabetic patients, that is not well understood.
What causes it beyond just being diabetic?
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Is it painful for type 1 diabetic to be denied from insulin?
I know it is deadly dangerous and would put lots of stress on the person. Type 1 diabetes requires treatment with insulin. Is it also physically painful? Let's assume there are also no any other ...
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How long on average would a type 1 diabetic survive without insulin injections, given that their remission phase has long since passed?
I've been trying to find information on how long a type 1 diabetic would survive without insulin injections.
Most of the information I've found deals with recently diagnosed patients, who show ...
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How to differentiate between Type 2 and Type 1 Diabetes
I have a database of Diabetes patients with labs, drugs, diagnosis information.
However, the database doesn't have explicit labels/information on who is suffering from Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
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Is it possible to measure glucose levels only by the eye?
I was surfing the web to find a good project to make, using Deep Learning applied to the Medical Sciences and I saw a freshman that built an app that can reads the glucose levels only with a picture ...
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Why is there no ketoacidosis in Type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Since Insulin is unable to act on cells due to insulin resistance, then shouldn't ketoacidosis also occur in Type 2 ?
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Side-effects or other medical conditions for diabetic patients
I have a database of diabetic patients and their medication/lab test data as well.
1) I am planning to run a simple analysis like finding out incidence rate
example: amongst the T2DM patients that I ...
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T2DM medication treatment pathway
I am looking at the T2DM medications specified here and have a few questions about them.
1) Why don't I see drugs like Troglitazone, Tolazamide, Acarbose, Acetohexamide, Chlorpropramide, Miglitol? ...
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T2DM diagnosis vs disorder due to T2DM diagnosis?
I have a database of diabetic patients. Mostly 80 % are T2DM patients. Now I would like to identify the T2DM patients based on their conditions reported. I mean when patients visit hospital (diabetic ...
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How to interpret diabetic complications?
I have a database of diabetic patients. Mostly 80 % are T2DM patients. Now I would like to identify the T2DM patients based on their conditions reported. I mean when patients visit hospital (diabetic ...
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How does Diabetic specialist clinic work?
I am from IT domain and would like to seek some help on certain medicine related questions
I would like to know how does Diabetic specialist hospital/clinic work for Diabetic patients when compared ...
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T2DM Fasting glucose level - extreme cases
I am working on clinical data analysis and currently dealing with T2DM patients.
When I look at their Fasting glucose level readings, I see that their values range from 0.9 mmol\L to 64 mmol\L
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Is Gestational diebetes common to all pregnant women? Can the unborn develop complications from mother with Gestational Diabetes? [closed]
I work as an Industrial Training student in a government Hospital and every Tuesday, happens to be our Immunization clinic. Then a Health talk proceeds.
During the Health talk which was conducted by ...
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Insulin & break down of different nutrient groups
I have been a type 1 diabetic for over 30 years. According to what I learned during my life from doctors and dietitians, for my age/height/weight, I should take around 6 bread units of carbohydrates ...
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Communication between Contour Next Link 2.4 and insulin pump MiniMed 640G
I am wondering how the Contour Next Link 2.4 and the insulin pump MiniMed 640G communicate with each other. Is this over Bluetooth or what is it?
Thanks a lot!
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The exact difference between A1 and A2 milk
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I am no expert in biology or chemistry. There are two links one stating A1 milk is good and A2 is bad the other link claiming the opposite. Which one can I trust? What ...
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How do diabetics manage their diet and meal planning? [closed]
I've been trying to understand how important diet is to managing diabetes and was wondering whether meal planning was a really important thing and what it involved. Do you have to spend a lot of time ...
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What are Useful Resources and Practices that Help Managing Type-1 Diabetes?
I have a close relative with type-1 diabetes who suffer from unbalanced sugar levels (high blood sugar/low blood sugar) very often. Managing her blood sugar is becoming very stressful; especially, ...
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Insulin and cellular glucose capture
Insulin is said to be the "unlock" key to let glucose enter body cells.
Then why do stable Type 1 Diabetes patients have to inject less insulin in case of scheduled sport activities?
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Management of erectile dysfunction in type I diabetes [closed]
Type I diabetes is in the long term associated with accelerated vascular and autonomic disease. One of the consequences of both of these is erectile dysfunction. What diagnostic tests are used to ...
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Health I.D for diabetes - What is the preferred method of identification?
Having type 1 diabetes for a little over a decade now I've never worn an identification to help others know of my condition especially in case of emergencies (such as hypoglycemic attacks - paramedics ...
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How does Affreza inhalable insulin affect lungs in patients without lung disease?
Affreza's website mentions side effects in patients with chronic lung disease.
Given that insulin injections can cause lipohypertrophy, what is the risk of inhaling insulin in this regard?
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Formula for determining carb count from blood sugar changes?
Prior to eating I count carbs and then use my insulin carb ratios to determine how much insulin I should take. This is straight forward when I'm cooking my food, going to a chain restaurant, or have ...
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Chances of getting diabetes type 1?
My grandmother has has type 1 diabetes for more than 25 years (she's now 79 years old). My mother died when I was a kid, so I don't have any information about her health.
I want to know my what are ...
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Does melatonin have an effect on the treatment of type 1 diabetes?
Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by the body's inability to regulate blood sugar due to a disabled pancreas' not producing insulin. People with diabetes regulate their own blood ...
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What is the cause of Type 1 Diabetes?
Type 1 Diabetes, also known as "Juvenile-onset" diabetes (due to the fact that it's often diagnosed early in life) is a life-threatening disorder characterized by the body's inability to to produce ...
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