Dr. Carolina Solis-Herrera, Chief of the Endocrinology Division at UT Health San Antonio, joined Leading SA to discuss the issues across our community.
– One in six San Antonians has Type 2 Diabetes, and a third of San Antonians are pre-diabetic.
March 28 is Diabetes Alert Day, a one-day “wake-up call” that focuses on the seriousness of diabetes and the importance of understanding your risk. “Type one diabetes is a disorder where you develop antibodies against your pancreas, which is the organ that produces insulin and lowers your glucose. It’s more common in children, and it’s about 5% of all the diabetes that we see. Type two diabetes is the most common form of diabetes is about 95% of all the forms of diabetes that is more a form of insulin resistance when you generally are sedentary, overweight than you have family history of diabetes,” Dr. Solis-Herrera said.
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