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Table of contents sugar in blood - very important indicator of a state of health of the person. Sugarspan level in blood (high or low) is defined by concentration of insulin - a hormone which is made by cages of a pancreas and promotes mastering of sugar by organism cages.
Saharnyj the diabetes is a disease that arises at the raised maintenance of sugar in a human body. At surplus of sugar in blood walls of vessels and the nervous terminations suffer; getting into them, glucose turns to substances which are toxic for these fabrics. As a result there are changes which break normal job of body in which there are many small vessels and the nervous terminations. Network of small blood vessels the most developed in a retina of an eye and in kidneys, and the nervous terminations approach to all bodies (in particular - to heart and a brain), but especially it is a lot of them in feet - both these bodies and body parts are most inclined to diabetic complications. Eyes, kidneys and feet first of all suffer.
Povyshenie than level of sugar of blood 120 mg of % on an empty stomach there are more testifies to development in the person of a diabetes.

sugar Level in blood	Norm	Surplus
On an empty stomach	120 mg of % (6,6 mmol/l)	are more 120 mg of %
After meal	140 mg of % (7,7 mmol/l)	more than 160-180 mg of %