Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar nonketotic coma are medical conditions that can result from biochemical imbalance in uncontrolled diabetes. This estimate, provided by the American Diabetes Association, is in contrast to higher estimates cited elsewhere that are based on all health care costs incurred by people with diabetes, including costs not resulting from diabetes. In pregnant women, different requirements are used to identify the presence of gestational diabetes. Except in certain specified circumstances, abnormal tests must be confirmed by repeat testing on another day. Treatment of diabetes Diabetes knowledge, treatment, and prevention strategies advance daily.
Treatment is aimed at keeping blood glucose near normal levels at all times.
Training in self-management is integral to the treatment of diabetes. Treatment must be individualized and must address medical, psychosocial, and lifestyle issues. Treatment requires a strict regimen that typically includes a carefully calculated diet, planned physical activity, home blood glucose testing several times a day, and multiple daily insulin injections. Approximately 40 percent of people with type 2 diabetes require insulin injections. It is estimated that 13.4 million adults, 7.0 percent of this population, have impaired fasting glucose.