Caribbean Lifestyle Diabetes Centre

A kidney transplant can be a life-changing step forward. People with kidney failure who receive a transplant generally live longer than those who remain on dialysis, on average. With the right care, you give your new kidney the best chance of a longer and healthier life.

Learn more: https://www.worldkidneyday.org/about-kidney-health/

Diabetes is not only about reducing sugar intake. It’s about how your body handles every meal and carb, and how insulin works. Many people don’t know they have until a complication appears.

Managing diabetes is harder when access to healthy food, safe spaces and care is limited.

Governments can empower people with diabetes by

🔵Making healthy foods affordable, taxing unhealthy options and subsidizing nutritious ones

🔵Providing education so people can manage their condition

🔵Strengthening health care and support services

🔵Investing in safe spaces for physical activity

Partnering with communities makes managing diabetes possible.

When you have type 2 diabetes, what you eat can help keep the disease in check. Here's what to know: https://wb.md/4ublNWu

Dehydration can make it harder to manage your blood sugar. Learn why and how to avoid it. https://bit.ly/3RT4dsS

Typically, we don’t think about how our blood flows through our veins. It’s one of the many bodily functions we take for granted. But for about 93 million U.S. adults, uncontrolled hypertension is top of mind as it impacts their general health and well-being.

Understanding what uncontrolled hypertension is, its causes, and how it affects the body can help you figure out whether you're living with this condition and how to talk to your doctor about finding ways to manage it. https://wb.md/4nRVfIp

That shaky feeling at “normal” glucose can mess with your head. Sometimes your body is reacting to the drop, not just the number.

Not every “low feeling” means your glucose is technically low.

Relative hypoglycaemia can make normal numbers feel wrong, especially after running high.

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Every organ donation is a gift of life.
Kidney donation, from both living and deceased donors, gives people with kidney failure a second chance at life, helping many come off dialysis and return to everyday living.

Learn more: https://www.worldkidneyday.org/about-kidney-health/ -donation