Diabetes without Symptoms is still Diabetes

From Kelly Close, writer for LifeWire, for About.com
An estimated 24 million Americans have diabetes, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) one-quarter to one-third don’t know it. How can so many individuals be unaware that they have diabetes? Certainly, one major factor is the absence of symptoms. This is a hallmark [...]

Type 2 Diabetes – What are some of the risk factors?

Medicine Shop Article source
“Type 2 diabetes (previously known as “adult onset”) is caused by the pancreas either not producing enough insulin or the insulin that is produced is not working because the cells are resistant to it. Older, outdated names for Type 2 diabetes are “maturity-onset” or “adult-onset diabetes.” Type 2 diabetes is often diagnosed [...]

Test Strips Do Expire –

Do Diabetic Test Strips Expire?
This was a question posted in Yahoo Questions:
Yahoo Question
Resolved Question
Old Diabetic Test Strips Making This Difference?
My family has a history of diabetes so I test my blood glucose often. Everything has been normal. I can no longer afford the test strips so I started using my late father’s old ones. [...]

Treating Type 2 Diabetes ASAP Pays Off

Studies: Intensive Approach to Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure Pays Off for Decades

By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Sept. 10, 2008 — If you’ve got type 2 diabetes, the sooner you get intense about reining in your blood sugar, the better. It also pays to buckle down on your blood pressure and stay [...]

Bogus Diabetic Test Strips

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/business/worldbusiness/17fraud.html

August 17, 2007
Bogus Diabetes Test Strips Traced to Chinese Distributor
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
A global hunt started by Johnson & Johnson has tracked to China some counterfeit versions of the test strips used by 10 million Americans to measure their blood sugar levels.
Potentially dangerous copies of the OneTouch Test Strip sold by the company’s LifeScan unit surfaced [...]