Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
How can diabetes management be improved?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is managed by changing the lifestyle, including a healthy diet, practicing sport regularly and monitoring blood sugar levels, so eating healthy food reduces body weight, in addition to reducing glucose levels in the blood and practicing sport helps insulin to work more effectively, on the other hand, lowers of blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart disease.
In order to improve the management of diabetes, the patient should have periodic blood glucose monitoring tests, to see if the treatment is useful in lowering blood sugar levels and whether there is a need to adjust the treatment, some of the periodic tests: (Blood analysis or urine test). If the results of the analysis are positive for the presence of sugar, these indicate that the concentration of sugar in the blood is higher than 180 MG / DL, the third test is hemoglobin, is a procedure that takes place every three months from the date of onset of the disease, the aim of this procedure is to determine the extent of treatment adjustment for glucose (Hemoglobin is 7% or less, indicates how successful diabetes management is).