It can send a chill up anyone's spine being informed by your physician that you have borderline diabetes. This is a disease that can literally alter your life. But, each year, hundreds of thousands of patients go through that scenario.

It is a well known fact in the Medical world that diabetes may be associated with various types of liver disease. The risk is higher in those that have had diabetes for more than ten years. 

The association between diabetes and liver disease falls into three categories;

The combined presence of diabetes and hypertension in an individual is deadly indeed if not properly controlled. These two diseases are actually closely related and tend to lead to damage of the same organs in the body like the eyes, brain, heart and kidneys.

Most of us know that the diabetes is a disease in which the level of blood glucose, which is also called as blood sugar, is above normal value.

Diet is the cornerstone of treatment for diabetes. In fact, some Type 2 diabetics can decrease or even discontinue medications with proper eating.

This test is also known as “random plasma glucose”, and does not require fasting. The test checks the amount of glucose in the patient's bloodstream, but without regard to when the person last ate or drank.

Insulin is a hormone that has many functions in the body, but its main function is to control and regulate the levels of glucose in your blood. Without insulin, the blood sugar builds up in the body to such dangerously high levels that it begins to impact the functionality of some of the body's major organs.