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.
Understand that having diabetes increases your risk for heart disease and learn steps you can take to better manage your blood glucose levels, lowering your chances of having a heart attack or stroke.
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.
When you have type 1 diabetes, your body can’t process blood sugar. Too much sugar in your blood can cause serious health problems. Watch and learn more about type 1 diabetes and how to stay healthy.
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.
