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Are you diabetic ?

• Blood sugar 169 in one reading not meaning having the diabetes 
• The diabetes is mentioned when fasting blood glucose is greater than or equal to 1.26 g / l.
• It is advisable to check this number a second time in order to have two assays for blood glucose
• The blood test for glycated hemoglobin has become the best indicator of diabetes surveillance and antidiabetic treatments. Glycated hemoglobin or HbA1C evaluates the average blood glucose level from 3 to 4 months before the blood test

1. Exercise and adopt a regular physical activity: walking, swimming, cycling ...
2. Control your weight
3. Monitor your diet
4. Treat high blood pressure
5. Stop smoking
6. Reduce alcohol consumption
7. Prevention of urinary tract infections and skin infections
8. Monitoring the condition of his feet.
9. Treat hyperlipidemia if weight loss is not enough

• Heredity: the attack of one of the parents, a brother or a sister suffering from diabetes is a risk factor
• High blood pressure
• A diet too rich
• A sedentary lifestyle, absence or insufficiency of physical activity
• Increased cholesterol
• History of cardiovascular disease: angina pectoris, infarction, arteritis of the lower limbs
• Smoking: Tobacco use appears to affect the pancreas by increasing insulin resistance. 
• Diabetes during pregnancy or birth of a child whose birth weight was greater than 4 kg
• Wounds difficult to heal
• Repeated infections: cystitis, urinary tract infection, mycosis, abscess, boils.
• Age of more than 45 years;
• Overweight ; High BMI

• Feeling always thirsty
• Need to urinate frequently
• An increase in appetite
• Slimming
• Drowsiness
• Tired
• Brutal changes in vision
• Loss of consciousness