If you have diabetes, you are at higher risk for serious eye problems. It can cause severe vision loss and even blindness. But diabetic eye disease can often be treated before vision loss occurs. You can lower your risk for these conditions if you get regular eye checkups and work with your healthcare provider to keep your diabetes under control.
Recognize the serious complications metabolic syndrome can cause and the risk factors that can lead to it. Understand that through lifestyle changes these risk factors can be managed, leading to a healthier you.
Watch this video to learn how gestational diabetes affects your pregnancy, including how hormones produced during your pregnancy affect your blood glucose levels, and the testing for gestational diabetes.
Understand the health problems that people with diabetes can develop, and how working with your care providers can help prevent gum disease, urinary tract infections and difficulties with sexual functioning.
Watch this clip to understand what happens within your body when you have type 2 diabetes, and the importance of keeping your blood glucose levels within a healthy range.
