Patients who have a pre-diabetes condition or a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus have repeatedly heard of a term such as insulin resistance, and what it is, let's look at it together.
Why do we need insulin?
Normally, in the bloodstream, our food gets in the form of glucose (sugar) and other substances. When the sugar level rises, the pancreas releases even more insulin hormone, to remove excess sugar from the blood and apply it as an energy source.
Insulin resistance is a condition of the cells of the body when their ability to react to the action of the hormone insulin decreases. With this condition, the pancreas produces more and more of this hormone. When an increased level of insulin hormone no longer copes with sugar in the bloodstream - the risk of getting type 2 diabetes and the development of atherosclerosis increases.
Insulin resistance - symptoms and treatment
To such pathology can result or bring the different reasons:
- overweight (obesity);
- high blood pressure;
- high index of "bad" cholesterol;
- Polycystic ovary syndrome and type 2 diabetes.
The resistance to insulin is determined by the results of the blood test, and some symptom taking into account the genetic predisposition.
Symptoms of the disease:
- the level of sugar in the morning on an empty stomach is disturbed;
- increased protein in the urine (indirect indication);
- the analysis for cholesterol is poor, as well as on triglycerides;
- abdominal obesity (around the waist).
Reduce the resistance to insulin can be medicated. But the doctor should be engaged in treatment, as this is a rather dangerous disease and many medicines for his treatment are given by prescription. To accompany this disease can both the pathological level of cholesterol, and high blood pressure . Therefore, medicines for its treatment can be applied a lot.