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Stop Type 2 Diabetes Before It Starts
by Dr. Stephen Sinatra
Published 03/31
Modern medicine and medical technology have made some real inroads in detecting and treating a number of diseases, including my specialty, heart disease. Yet other disorders, such as diabetes, have benefited from relatively few developments in treatment.
Making matters even worse, diabetes detection is in the dark ages. Studies show that many patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (formerly known as non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and often called adult-onset diabetes) have had the disease for nine to 12 years prior to diagnosis. In other words, by the time they know they have the disease, a good percentage of patients already have advanced changes in small blood vessels throughout their body. Twenty percent have early retinopathy, a progressive disease that destroys capillaries in the eye, usually resulting in blurred vision and possibly blindness.
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