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5 things to know about ‘Time in Range’
Ever heard of Time in Range (TIR)? It is the percentage of time that a person with diabetes spends with their blood sugar levels in a target range.In this article you will learn everything you need to know about this indicator and why the Time in Range outshines the former gold standard HbA1c (A1c).
April 15, 2020•by Ilka Gdanietz
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6 important functions of insulin pumps
Insulin pumps help simplify everyday diabetes therapy and offer a variety of functions to help you with your diabetes management. Not all functions of an insulin pump are equally important to everyone, and some may even be completely unused or ignored.
March 27, 2020•by Ilka Gdanietz
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5 Tips on Staying Mentally Fit With Diabetes
Diabetes can affect your mental health. It’s enough to make you either shut down and deny it completely, or feel completely overwhelmed. Especially right after your diagnosis. It’s not always easy to come to terms with the thought of having to live with it for the rest of your life. On average, people with diabetes struggle with depression or mental health issues about twice as often as people without diabetes.¹
March 20, 2020•by Marie Kaiser
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The development of insulin pumps - from then to now
Have you ever wondered how long insulin pumps have been around, what the first insulin pump looked like and how insulin pumps have developed over the years? We're going to answer those questions for you ...
March 18, 2020•by Ilka Gdanietz
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14 Early Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes Type 1 & Type 2
How can you tell if you have diabetes? Well, in most cases it depends on the type of diabetes because the signs of type 2 diabetes can be so mild that you probably don’t even realize them. In this article you will learn about the early signs of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
March 16, 2020•by Heather Nelson
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Is diabetes hereditary? - Understand the role of your genetics
One sentence that was burned into my brain when I was diagnosed in the 90s was that I would "very likely" later pass my type 1 diabetes on to my children. At that time I accepted that and at the age of 10 years I didn’t think much more about it. But how likely is it really to inherit type 1 diabetes?
March 10, 2020•by Ilka Gdanietz
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