Here are the questions I answered in chapter 5:
Chapter 5: Cure
How close are we to curing diabetes?
What is a pancreas transplant?
Who should get a pancreas transplant?
What is the difference between a pancreas transplant and an islet cell transplant?
Who should get an islet cell transplant?
What are stem cells?
Will stem cells cure diabetes?
What is an artificial pancreas?
Would an artificial pancreas cure diabetes?
Does gastric bypass surgery cure type 2 diabetes?
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Here are the questions I answered in chapter 4:
Chapter 4: Prevention
What can I do to prevent myself from getting diabetes?
What can I do to prevent my kids from getting diabetes if I have type 2 diabetes?
Can improving your diet and doing more exercise really prevent type 2 diabetes?
Are there drugs that can prevent type 2 diabetes?
What can I do to prevent my kids from getting diabetes if I have type 1 diabetes?
If I have type 1 diabetes, should my kids get tested for ICA and GADA?
If I am pregnant and have diabetes, what can I do to make sure my baby stays healthy?
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Here are the questions I answered in chapter 3:
Chapter 3: Diagnosis
My doctor says I have diabetes, so why don't I have any symptoms?
What are the symptoms of diabetes?
If I think I might have diabetes what are the best screening tests to get?
Who should be screened for diabetes?
What is Prediabetes?
What is The Metabolic Syndrome?
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
How do you know it you are normal weight, overweight, or obese?
How can I tell if I have type 1 or type 2 diabetes?
What is a normal blood glucose level?
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Here are the questions that I have answered in chapter 2:
Chapter 2: Types Of Diabetes
How many types of diabetes are there?
My doctor says I have "secondary" diabetes. What does that mean?
What is impaired glucose tolerance?
Does starting insulin make me a type 1 diabetic; can you change from one type to another?
What genes cause type 1 diabetes?
What genes cause type 2 diabetes?
What is type one-and-a-half diabetes?
Can a sixty year-old person get "Juvenile" diabetes?
Can a ten year-old person get type 2 diabetes?
Does it matter what type of diabetes you have?
What is polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)?
Can a person carry the genes for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
If I have type 1 diabetes, how likely is it that my children will get it?
If I have type 2 diabetes, how likely is it that my children will get it?
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The first part of The Diabetes Answer Book has five chapters with a lot of questions about what causes diabetes and how it might be prevented or cured. Here are the questions for chapter 1:
Chapter 1 Causes of Diabetes
What is diabetes mellitus?
What causes diabetes?
What is insulin and how does it work?
What is insulin resistance?
Is diabetes caused by having too little insulin or by being resistant to insulin?
Can insulin resistance be treated?
Is diabetes caused by eating too much sugar and junk food?
Is diabetes caused by being overweight?
Can stress cause diabetes?
Whay are so many people getting diabetes nowadays?
Does diabetes ever go away on its own?
Does diabetes "skip a generation?"
How can I get diabetes if no-one in my family has it?
How can pregnancy cause diabetes that goes away afterwards?
When is it helpful to measure the insulin level in a person's blood?
What is C-peptide?
When is it helpful to measure C-peptide in a person's blood?
What is islet cell antibody (ICA)?
What is glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody (GADA)?
When is it helfpul to measure ICA and GADA?
When are genetic test useful?
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