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Alvin Powers: So, Mia has Type I Diabetes because she developed that at a very young age. And she requires insulin treatment every day. People that have Type I Diabetes are dependent on insulin. They have to take insulin everyday or they become very, very seriously ill. In both types of diabetes, not only are worried insulin in controlling their blood glucose and normalizing that because that helps the patient feel better. But we’re also very interested in normalizing the blood glucose for long periods of time, meaning days and months and weeks and years because we know that elevation of the blood glucose even small elevations of blood glucose for long periods of time lead to what we call the complications of diabetes.
These are problems that people whether they’re Type I or Type II can develop. And they may involve problems with the vision or their retina or the back of the eye where they can develop abnormal blood vessel development. And if not treated appropriately can lead to blindness. The other problems or the other complications with people who have diabetes have are kidney disease. Uhm, the third problem that people who have diabetes have is neuropathy, which is abnormalities in the nerves, usually, in the feet. And these changes in the nerve prevent the person from feeling things correctly. And in that way, they may injure their foot. They may develop an ulcer on their foot.
And because of an increase, susceptibility to infection may develop a very serious infection that can spread very quickly in the foot and can sometimes and necessitate amputation of the toe or part of the foot or even part of the leg. Mia was a great example of how even if you have Type I Diabetes, with careful monitoring, with careful planning, she was able to successfully complete a marathon. And that’s really an amazing accomplishment for someone who has Type I Diabetes. But I think it reflects how Mia has taken control of her diabetes. She clearly is in a partnership with her health care provider, her physician, her nurse. And they’re all working together on the same team to try to normalize her blood glucose and match her insulin requirements with how much she eats each day.
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