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The good news is that often lifestyle changes alone, such as diet and exercise, can lower your blood sugar level and decrease your risk of developing diabetes. In general, no matter what type of diabetes a person has, monitoring and managing blood sugar are the most important things to minimise risk for complications. It can be harder to control blood glucose levels during an illness or infection. Covid-19 is no exception: It is important to remember that diabetic patients are not at higher risk of Covid-19 infection. Rather, people with diabetes are experiencing more severe MINIMISING RISK: Monitoring and managing blood sugar are the most important things to minimise risk for complications. It can be harder to control blood symptoms, particularly those glucose levels during an illness or infection. people whose glucose control is not optimal. Among patients who are hospitalised due to Covid-19, a uestion: Diabetes higher proportion has diabetes. runs in my family. 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Patients with type 1 diabetes are as diet and lifestyle to prevent unknown, although genetics and family also should continue to There are several forms of completely insulin deficient and complications. environmental factors, such as practice good infection control, diabetes, including Type 1, which require daily insulin injections. Type 2 diabetes develops being overweight and inactivity, including proper hand hygiene, is an autoimmune disorder, and Given her age of onset and insulin when the pancreas does not seem to be contributing factors. wearing a mask when out in public Type 2, which results from both requirement, your mother likely make enough insulin, and the Your sister most likely has Type 2 and social distancing. Lastly, stay loss of insulin production and has Type 1 diabetes. Despite body can’t use insulin as well diabetes. up-to-date on any recommended development of insulin resistance ongoing research, Type 1 diabetes as it should. That means sugar Although there’s no cure for vaccines to minimise your risk in body tissues. Gestational currently has no cure. Treatment cannot move into the cells, and Type 2 diabetes, studies show for illness. — Mayo Clinic News diabetes is another form that focuses on managing blood it builds up in the blood. Exactly it is possible for some people to Network/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Monday, August 31, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Cloud of uncertainty Some analysts expect the business to eventually return to its normal playbook once there’s a widely available vaccine and patrons’ comfort levels increase. It remains to be seen if any of the new methods will bring permanent changes, writes Ryan Faughnder I do think that the pandemic has unleashed all options. It’s become a testing zone of every possible way of getting a film out there, and it’s going to take while before it gets set into some sort of pattern ‘ — Bob Berney, indie film eteranv ince the advent of the blockbuster, Hollywood followed a rigid rule book for how to release movies to the public — put the fi lm in as many theatres as possible, and give theatres full exclusivity before people can see it at home. But Samid the Covid-19 pandemic, the old practices have given way to a free-for-all of experimentation. No-one knows that better than Bob Berney, the indie fi lm veteran who runs Los Angeles-based production and distribution fi rm Picturehouse. He’d planned to give a faith-based drama a theatrical release buoyed by support from churches, but with the pandemic still raging, the company switched gears. Instead, Picturehouse put the movie out as a $20 video-on-demand release’ last Friday, the same day it was to be on about 215 cinema screens. “The fi lm has an older audience,” Berney said. “If they can’t go to church, it’s diffi cult for church leaders to recommend they go to a movie.” In the coming weeks, studios will release multiple delayed fi lms, even though eight of the top 20 theatrical markets in the US — including Los Angeles and New York — remain closed for indoor theatres.