Treatments of Type 2 diabetes After being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes there is many key factors that have to take place the patient may or may not need to take medication depending on the complication and also on the lifestyle of the patient. Also, lifestyle changes will have to take place in order to prevent type 2 diabetes, the following will need to take place a diet with a low carbohydrate diet and aerobic exercise. Insulin therapy is also another way in treating this chronic disease. Another way of preventing type 2 diabetes is, by quitting bad habits like smoking and stress those are risk factors that must be avoided (Web M.D., 2014). Although diabetes has no cure it can be prevented with a healthy lifestyle but isn’t a sure thing.
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Type 2 diabetes is preventable if the individual has a healthy and active lifestyle but there is no guarantee because type 2 diabetes could be hereditary. Unfortunately, type 2 diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease with no cure only treatments to help maintain it. Type 2 diabetes is usually an “adult on-set” disease but is dramatically increasing in children, this disease is characterized by a combination of an unhealthy lifestyle, obesity, and genes. Over time if left untreated it can lead to serious life-threatening complications that can reduce the life expectancy of an individual. Type 2 diabetes can decrease the life expectancy of an individual with the following conditions: high blood pressure, gum disease, kidney disease, high cholesterol, and nerve damage. Diabetes is the seventh most common cause of death in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Due to the fact that type 2 diabetes is the seventh most common cause of death in the United States, there is no defining statistic that an individual can determine the life expectancy of type 2 diabetes. But the better the disease is treated and under control, the lower the risk to develop those associated conditions which lead to a shortened
Type 2 diabetes is preventable if the individual has a healthy and active lifestyle but there is no guarantee because type 2 diabetes could be hereditary. Unfortunately, type 2 diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease with no cure only treatments to help maintain it. Type 2 diabetes is usually an “adult on-set” disease but is dramatically increasing in children, this disease is characterized by a combination of an unhealthy lifestyle, obesity, and genes. Over time if left untreated it can lead to serious life-threatening complications that can reduce the life expectancy of an individual. Type 2 diabetes can decrease the life expectancy of an individual with the following conditions: high blood pressure, gum disease, kidney disease, high cholesterol, and nerve damage. Diabetes is the seventh most common cause of death in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Due to the fact that type 2 diabetes is the seventh most common cause of death in the United States, there is no defining statistic that an individual can determine the life expectancy of type 2 diabetes. But the better the disease is treated and under control, the lower the risk to develop those associated conditions which lead to a shortened