{"id":483,"date":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/better-diagnosis-of-diabetes-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:12","slug":"better-diagnosis-of-diabetes-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/better-diagnosis-of-diabetes-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Better diagnosis of diabetes could help prevent heart attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone in Oneida who has wondered how doctors can tell if a patient has diabetes, the easiest way is to test the patient&#8217;s A1C levels. By ordering a simple test, doctors can learn a patient&#8217;s blood sugar levels for the past two to three months. If it is that easy, why are there an estimated 7 million people in the country whose diabetes is undiagnosed?<\/p>\n<p>What is even more frightening is that undiagnosed diabetes has been linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/failure-to-diagnose-heart-attack.html\">heart attacks<\/a>. Roughly one in 10 people who have had heart attacks have undiagnosed diabetes, Had these individuals known of their diabetes and taken the steps necessary to regulate their weight, blood sugar and other factors, it is possible that they would have been able to avoid the heart attack altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does a failure to diagnose diabetes put a patient at risk of a heart attack, but it also dictates how likely a person is to seek diabetes treatment. Since untreated diabetes could lead to a subsequent heart attack, heart disease and a host of medical conditions, it is important that doctors do what they can to get their patients into diabetic treatment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/better-diagnosis-of-diabetes-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Better diagnosis of diabetes could help prevent heart attacks\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone in Oneida who has wondered how doctors can tell if a patient has diabetes, the easiest way is to test the patient&#8217;s A1C levels. By ordering a simple test, doctors can learn a patient&#8217;s blood sugar levels for the past two to three months. If it is that easy, why are there an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure-to-diagnose","tag-failure-to-diagnose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Better diagnosis of diabetes could help prevent heart attacks &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; June 19, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Better diagnosis of diabetes could help prevent heart attacks - Failure to Diagnose - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/better-diagnosis-of-diabetes-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Better diagnosis of diabetes could help prevent heart attacks &#8212; 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