Lifestyle choices or health behaviours, as they are called now, can make a significant difference to life expectancy for all of us, but even more so for a person living with diabetes.

Good diabetes care that helps the person living with diabetes avoid complications, involves regular diabetes-focused visits with their family doctor, nurse practitioner or diabetes specialist.

Low blood sugars (hypoglycemia) can be, at most, life threatening and, at the very least, an annoyance. In general, they’re pretty disruptive to your life! Lows that happen at night, when you are asleep, can be especially frightening.

In the last few years, many of us who treat people with diabetes have made a point of saying, “There is no such thing as borderline diabetes!”

The list of long-term complications caused by living with diabetes can be scary.

People with diabetes may be affected by skin conditions. Read on to discover how these skin conditions can be recognized and treated.

If you have diabetes, it is important to know what the A1C (sometimes called hemoglobin A1C) test is, and how the diabetes team uses the A1C.