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Make Connections: Glucose Guidelines

MedlinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, suggests the following guidelines for main- taining healthy blood-sugar levels:

When

Ideal or Targeted Blood-Glucose Levels 90 to 130 milligrams per deciliter

Before meals

One to two hours after less than 180 milligrams per the start of a meal deciliter

Complications of Diabetes If one develops type 2 diabetes, he or she becomes vulnerable to a host of other long-term medical issues. According to NIH, people that have diabetes have a greater chance of having coronary heart dis- ease, heart failure, and diabetic cardiomyopathy. (We

will discuss heart diseases at greater length in chapter 3.) People with dia- betes are also at a higher risk of having peripheral artery disease, a condition when the arteries that lead to the legs and feet become clogged.

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