Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts |  Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations. ţAmputations: More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. ţPeriodontal disease: Almost one third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. ţPain: Many diabetics fall victim to chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or fibromyalgia. ţDepression is a common accompaniment of diabetes. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. For greatest benefit, thiamine must be taken in supplement form and as benfotiamine, which is lipid (or fat) soluble—a form that is better at getting into the cells than the water-soluble form. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts |  Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations. ţAmputations—More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. ţPeriodontal disease—Almost one-third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. ţPain—Many diabetics have chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or muscle pain (fibromyalgia). ţDepression—Depression is a common accompaniment to diabetes. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  More than 60 percent of nontraumatic amputations of the lower limbs are performed on people who have diabetes. In 2002, for example, about 82,000 such amputations were required for people with diabetes.
Macrovascular Complications
?Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates that are two to four times greater than adults who don't have diabetes.
?The risk for stroke is two- to fourfold higher among people with diabetes.
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Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts | | Amputations: More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. ţPeriodontal disease: Almost one third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. ţPain: Many diabetics fall victim to chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or fibromyalgia. ţDepression is a common accompaniment of diabetes. Clinical depression can often begin to occur even years before diabetes is fully evident. As well, depression is difficult to treat in poorly controlled diabetics. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts | | Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. For greatest benefit, thiamine must be taken in supplement form and as benfotiamine, which is lipid (or fat) soluble—a form that is better at getting into the cells than the water-soluble form. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  Diabetic foot complications are the most common cause of non-trauma-based lower-extremity amputations in the industrialized world. Neuropathy, a major etiologic component of most diabetic ulcerations, is present in more than 82 percent of diabetic patients with foot wounds.93 The incidence of gangrene is twenty times higher as compared to nondiabetics, and the risk of lower-extremity amputation is fifteen to forty-six times higher in diabetics than in those who do not have diabetes mellitus.94-95 Each year, more than 82,000 amputations are performed among people with diabetes. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  From 1993 to 1995, about 67,000 amputations were performed each year among people with diabetes. In 2002, about 82,000 non-traumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.40 The direct cost of an amputation associated with diabetes is estimated to be between US$30,000 and US$60,000. The estimated cost for three years of subsequent care ranges from US$43,000 to US$63,000 ?mainly due to the increased need for home care and social services.
It has been forced upon me that diabetic gangrene is not heaven sent, but earth born.
E.P. | | The medical establishment likes to think that great steps have been taken in diabetes management42 but in the area of the diabetic foot, little impact has been made in the depressing statistics for rates of amputations and foot ulcers. Foot ulcers develop in approximately 15% of patients with diabetes, and foot disorders are a leading cause of hospitalization among such patients. 85% of lower-limb amputations in patients with diabetes are preceded by foot ulceration, suggesting that prevention and appropriate management of foot lesions are of paramount importance.43
Diabetic foot ulcer. |
Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |  Did you know that diabetes is the leading cause of amputations and one of the leading causes of blindness in the elderly?2
Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions. With more than 90 percent of these cases known as type-2 diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes), we must seriously consider what is going wrong! Type-1 diabetes used to be called juvenile diabetes. This type of diabetes usually occurs in children and is the result of an autoimmune attack on the pancreas. This leaves these children without any insulin; therefore, they must take insulin to survive. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts | | In atherosclerosis, damage to the endothelium triggers a cascade of inflammation resulting in an accumulation of plaque (fats, cholesterol, and other substances) in the arteries that supply the heart (which leads to coronary artery disease), the brain (responsible for stroke), or the legs (responsible for the poor circulation that can lead to diabetic foot infections and, ultimately, amputations of the lower extremities). Atherosclerosis can also affect the arteries that supply the kidneys. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | It requires multiple medications, possibly including daily insulin injections; blood-glucose monitoring equipment; frequent doctors visits; and, as complications mount, is likely to lead to surgeries (including open heart surgery or amputations), dialysis, and increasing disability As you can see, this progressive condition causes damage to the body in many ways.
The good news, if caught early, diabetes can be controlled without medications. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts | | In 2002, for example, about 82,000 such amputations were required for people with diabetes.
Macrovascular Complications
?Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates that are two to four times greater than adults who don't have diabetes.
?The risk for stroke is two- to fourfold higher among people with diabetes.
?Among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics, the risk of stroke within five years of diagnosis is 100 percent greater than that of the general population, according to a study published in Stroke in 2007.
? | | Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes share the unfortunate ability to cause devastating long-term complications that can affect nearly every organ system in the body, including the eyes, kidneys, heart, and nerves, and can ultimately result in kidney failure, blindness, amputations, heart disease, and stroke. This is a critical point to understand, as many people have the misconception that only people who have type 1 diabetes are at risk for these complications as they grow older. Nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone who has diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2, is at risk. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts | | Amputations—More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. ţPeriodontal disease—Almost one-third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. ţPain—Many diabetics have chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or muscle pain (fibromyalgia). ţDepression—Depression is a common accompaniment to diabetes. Clinical depression can often begin to occur even years before diabetes is fully evident. As well, depression is difficult to treat in poorly controlled diabetics. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. For greatest benefit, thiamine must be taken in supplement form and as benfotiamine, which is lipid (or fat) soluble—a form that is better at getting into the cells than the water-soluble form.
Dose: Take vitamin Bl as benfotiamine, 320 mg daily in divided doses (meaning 160 mg, twice daily).
Chromium
This mineral is found in foods such as romaine lettuce, onions, tomatoes, Brewers yeast, oysters, liver, whole grains, and bran cereals. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Doctors report a surge in young adolescents who are developing Type 2 diabetes—which can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, stroke, limb amputations, blindness and, of course, a diminished quality of life and shortened life span.
The consumption of foods that are of no use to the body is a major cause of disease, including infection. Meat or other flesh foods belong in that category. When you eat meat, your body can extract only a fraction of the meat's constituents, and the rest has to be disposed of in different ways. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  Diabetes is the #1 cause of blindness, kidney failure and amputations. Each year, among people with diabetes:
~ 12,000-24,000 become blind due to diabetic eye disease
~ more than 100,000 experience kidney failure ~ 86,000 undergo lower-extremity amputations cancer
• One out of every 2.5 people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime — that's almost half the population.
• Over the next 5 years, cancer is predicted to surpass heart disease as the number one cause of death. |
Elaine Magee
See book keywords and concepts |  If you are concerned about heart disease and
Fast Facts about Diabetes
/ Diabetes afflicts more than 20 million people in the United States and is the main cause of kidney failure, limb amputations, and new-onset blindness in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke.
diet changes will help reduce the risk of both diseases. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | The women undergo many unnecessary biopsies and an unknown number of mastectomies (breast amputations). Many of the women suffer unnecessarily from depression, desperation, and fear of dying as a result of the diagnosis. In the United States, mastectomies have skyrocketed since mammography became the most popular "preventive" method for diagnosing breast cancer.
The medical establishment is very nervous that the truth about the mammogram technology is finally beginning to surface. After all, it is a huge moneymaker. Peter Gotzsche, M.D. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  And because diabetes itself can lead to heart disease, stroke, and decreased circulation in the legs and feet, having both PAD and diabetes raises the risk of these complications as well as foot and leg amputations.
Numbness and tingling in the arms or legs can also be early warning signs of peripheral neuropathy (PN)—damage to the peripheral nervous system, the nerves that transmit sensory signals to and from the brain and spinal cord. | | As PN progresses, feeling in the arms, fingers, legs, and toes diminishes, increasing the risk of infections, wounds that don't heal, and consequent amputations. Uncontrolled diabetes is a leading cause of peripheral neuropathy in the United States.
A physical injury, an autoimmune disorder, or a bacterial or viral infection—such as shingles, Lyme
SIGNIFICANT FACT
About 75% of people with peripheral artery disease don't have any signs, so the condition goes undiagnosed. And women are less likely than men to have PAD signs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There are a lot of amputations in this country for diabetics. They get gangrene because they have diabetic neuropathy and eventually they don't have active nerve endings in their limbs any more. In fact, the majority of amputations in this country are due to diabetes, but at least there's a point beyond which they can justify it. They can say, "This leg isn't going to make it. You can't feel it, you can't move it, and it's getting infected." In such a case, an amputation is medically justified. But let's say that they said, "You're diabetic? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations, in fact more than 60% of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.
It goes without saying that for diabetics a shift in blood sugar numbers bringing them closer to normal range is not only life changing but can in fact be lifesaving -- again, the CDC's 2005 National Diabetes Fact Sheet states that:
Heart disease and stroke account for about 65% of deaths in people with diabetes. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The complications related to diabetes still lead as causes for blindness, amputations, and kidney transplants. Diabetic factors that contribute to heart disease and stroke all continue to rise. Diabetics are being sacrificed for profit!
Synthetic Human Insulin: The Not-so-wonder Drug
More than 20 years of pharmaceutical corporation advances have only served to stimulate their insatiable appetite for profits. The wonder drug, synthetic human insulin, was supposed to make the world a safer, cheaper, and less worrisome place for diabetics to live. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  The major health consequences of diabetes include heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, pregnancy complications, lower-extremity amputations, and death.
What really gets me is the number of people projected to have diabetes in the future: One in three Americans born in the year 2000 will develop adult-onset diabetes. As the United States population gains weight, including record numbers of children, the tremendously increased incidence of this debilitating disease is causing many doctors and leaders to worry that the word disaster rather than just epidemic is looming ahead. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | In 2002, about 82,000 non-traumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.40 The direct cost of an amputation associated with diabetes is estimated to be between US$30,000 and US$60,000. The estimated cost for three years of subsequent care ranges from US$43,000 to US$63,000 ?mainly due to the increased need for home care and social services.
It has been forced upon me that diabetic gangrene is not heaven sent, but earth born.
E.P. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts | | In East Harlem diabetes-related amputations are also higher than in any other part of the city. And of course that is also the location of the highest percentage of people who are overweight—people who have bad food habits, exercise very little, and have significant poverty.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, one in three children born in the U.S. are expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes. New York is not the only place where diabetes is epidemic. As quoted in The Daily Texan in 2005: "In President George W. | | Remember, diabetic foot complications are the most common cause of nontrauma-based lower extremity amputations in the industrialized world. Neuropathy, a major etiologic component of most diabetic ulcerations, is present in more than 82 percent of diabetic patients with foot wounds.129 The incidence of gangrene is twenty times higher as compared to nondiabetics, and the risk of lower extremity amputation is fifteen to forty-six times higher in diabetics than in people who do not have diabetes mellitus.130'131
STAGE 6: INDURATION
Induration means a hardening or scarring of tissues. |
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