T+ Medical and LifeScan Team Up to Manage Diabetes
Diabetes can be the cause of some pretty serious health issues such as blindness, heart disease, and kidney failure. Insulin dependent patients suffer more severe effect of the disease as opposed to those diabetic patients that are non-insulin dependent.
Deficiency of Insulin causes Diabetes and Insulin is the hormone secreted by pancreas, especially the islets cell of pancreas. There are two major functions of Insulin. The first one is the breakage of the food into glucose which is the energy provider for our body and also helping in the movement of fats , glucose , proteins in the cells for the production of energy. Lowering the sugar level is the second major function of Insulin. There are two type of Diabetes – Type 1 & type 2 where Type 1 is the kind of diabetes where the body cannot generate Insulin and Type 2 is where the cells in the body are not able to utilize the insulin properly and in this type of diabetes its tough to know that you are suffering from it in the early stages and this hampers the body slowly & gradually.
Now you might be thinking, how you can treat this, right? Treatment is not that difficult provided you are maintaining your proper diet, doing regular exercise, stress controlling & Depression control. To maintain the equilibrium of the glucose level, it’s important to keep a well balanced diet. If you have to define the well balanced diet, it should be healthy diet which should be low in cholesterol, sugar, fats & must include the green leafy vegetables. For type 1 patients insulin is the most vital drug. Exercising would also help you in maintaining the blood sugar level. IF, by any chance the above precautionary measures are unable to solve the purpose then oral medication is the solution. Researches are going on and the scientists are really putting their hard work to develop a new method which is more effective to fight against this disease. Once this research is successful, there will be no need of taking Insulin shots and this technique is getting developed by transformation of the stem cells of human into mice.
More than 15 million Americans are suffering from diabetes and most of them are dependent on daily insulin shots. The key to control diabetes is to lower blood pressure and blood glucose levels and high cholesterol levels. Smoking triggers heart diseases and even greatly increases the risk for heart disease in diabetic people. Therefore diabetic people are advised to quit smoking in order to control the deadly heart diseases and high cholesterol levels.
LifeScan is a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson. Lifescan supplies blood glucose monitoring systems which are used in hospitals, meters, test strips, lancing devices, and software which allow diabetics to test the blood sugar levels. t+ Medical is an institution which takes data from LifeScan and wirelessly transmits the information to a central database. t+ Medical has made it possible for people to view this information on their mobile phones and personal computers. Thus patients can monitor their diabetes through this technique. T+ was established in 2002. It provides technology and services catering to the treatment of chronic diseases. The aim of t+Medical is to help mankind fight these deadly diseases and develop cost effective technologies for the healthlthcare providers and diabetics.
The venture between LifeScan and t+ Medical is going to be beneficial for doctors treating diabetes and the diabetics all around the world. It has brought together two different technologies and is offering lifesaving services to patients and healthcare providers. t+ Medical uses LifeScan’s One Touch(R) Ultra(R) System to obtain the blood glucose readings. The One Touch Ultra system is a small device, gives accurate results, patients enter information and result is obtained within five seconds. This Blood Glucose Meter is a fast and simple method to measure the blood glucose.
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