Gestational diabetes is diabetes that a woman can develop during pregnancy. When you have diabetes, your body cannot use the sugars and starches (carbohydrates) it takes in as food to make energy. As a result, your body collects extra sugar in your blood. We don’t know all the causes of gestational diabetes. Some—but not all—women […]
Type 2 diabetes, the more common type, occurs when your body does not make or use insulin well. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy, and without it, too much glucose stays in your blood. Over time, high blood glucose can lead to serious problems with your […]
More than 30 million Americans have diabetes. Another 84 million US adults have prediabetes, a serious health condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. A person with prediabetes is at high risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. […]
If you have diabetes, get your urine tested every year to look for kidney disease. Your doctor should do a creatinine blood test to check how these organs are working. He’ll also check your blood pressure regularly. It’s key to slowing this disease. Your reading should be less than 130/80. Approximately 1 in 3 adults […]
Diabetes means your blood glucose or blood sugar is too high. With type 1 diabetes, your pancreas does not make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Without insulin, too much glucose stays in your blood. Over time, high blood glucose can lead to serious problems […]
Diabetes is a common disease that occurs when your blood sugar is too high. Type one diabetes is when the pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin, causing blood glucose levels to rise. Type two diabetes is when the body produces enough insulin, it just doesn’t use it properly. One in 5 Americans over the age of […]
Prediabetes means your blood glucose (also called blood sugar) levels are higher than normal. When your blood glucose levels reach a certain level, you have diabetes. This is a disease that occurs when your body doesn’t make or use the hormone insulin properly. It causes too much glucose to build up in the blood. Too […]
Working with a diabetes educator can reduce the time physicians need to spend with each patient and increase efficiency. The term ‘incident to a physician‘s professional services means that the service was furnished as an integral, although incidental, part of the physician‘s personal professional service in the course of diagnosis or treatment of an injury […]
Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) is a key component of diabetes education and management. MNT is defined as a ‘nutrition-based treatment provided by a registered dietitian nutritionist.’ It includes ‘a nutrition diagnosis as well as therapeutic and counseling services to help manage diabetes.’ MNT Is an intensive, focused, and comprehensive nutrition therapy service which involves in-depth […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), two departments within the U.S. Federal Government’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provide the following guidelines for coding and reporting using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). These guidelines should be used as […]
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