AKF is joined by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association for a discussion on ways to best manage diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease, and how to have effective conversations with your health team. Our expert panel includes a cardiologist, endocrinologist and nephrologist.
• Dr. Neha Pagidipati, MD, MPH; Asst. Prof. of Medicine in Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute
• Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, DSc; Dir., Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, UT Health Science Ctr
• Dr. Pablo Garcia, MD – Nephrologist
• Melanie Paris, M.A., MPH – Senior Director of Health Initiatives and Education, AKF
For more information on the connection between diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease, visit www.kidneyfund.org
The pancreas is in the middle of the stomach, next to the kidneys and underneath the liver. The main culprit of the pancreas is a hormone that produces insulin in it, explains Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and Patient Care Manager with Baptist Hospital of Miami.
She states insulin enables people to break down sugar from food. If there isn’t sufficient insulin, that sugar remains in the bloodstream.
In type one diabetes, it has to be replaced completely and it’s important to determine how it is causing the insulin reduction, she says. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
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Diabetes is a condition primarily involving the pancreas, explains Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and Patient Care Manager with Baptist Hospital with a graphic.
She describes, throughout the pancreas there are areas called islets of Langerhans, which have a lot of cells but one of them, the beta cell, produces insulin.
Insulin helps the body to use sugar from food, because every kind of food is converted to sugar. Without insulin, sugar will remain in the bloodstream without entering the cells of patients’ bodies for energy. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
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