Diabetes, Sugar, and You.

Sugar diabetes is a rapidly growing concern in the 21st century. Estimates are that the increases in medical care will bankrupt the insurance industry due to the effect and side effects of diabetes.

Much of the problem is the current obesity epidemic that has plagued modern man in recent years. As weight goes up, so does risk of sugar diabetes.

Diabetes is a disease that involves poor handling of the individual’s blood sugar which is controlled, for the most part, by insulin. This process of poor sugar handling is not an overnight phenomenon. It usually takes years for someone to go from normal blood sugar to elevated blood sugar. But do we have to wait until it’s "too late" and the individual is "diabetic" before we start testing and treating?

Until recently, the sit and wait for bad news attitude was the standard practice.

Now, due to a newer understanding of the disease process and improved testing procedures we can begin to predict the risk to sugar diabetes decades in advance.

A simple blood test will help to determine your risk years before you become diabetic. The test also helps to analyze heart disease and stroke risk as well as risk to dementia and cancer.

Call today for a diabetic screening by Dr. DeCosmo: 727-541-2675