{"id":1056,"date":"2026-10-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulletnews.in\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2026-10-25T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:00:00","slug":"diabetes-early-symptoms-and-who-should-get-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/diabetes-early-symptoms-and-who-should-get-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes: early symptoms and who should get tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Diabetes Day falls on November 14, which is a good reason to check your risk.<\/p>\n<p>Common symptoms include increased thirst, frequent urination, constant tiredness, blurred vision, slow-healing wounds and unexplained weight loss. Many people, however, have no symptoms at first, which is why testing matters.<\/p>\n<p>Indians tend to develop diabetes at a younger age and at a lower body weight, so many doctors advise a test from about age 30 to 35, and earlier if you are overweight, have a large waist, have a parent or sibling with diabetes, have high blood pressure, have had gestational diabetes or have PCOS.<\/p>\n<p>The usual tests are a fasting blood sugar, a post-meal sugar and an HbA1c, which reflects your average sugar over about three months. Your doctor will explain what your result means, including whether you are in the &#x27;pre-diabetes&#x27; range, which can often be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Regular activity, a diet with less sugar and refined flour, a healthy weight, enough sleep and no tobacco all lower the risk.<\/p>\n<p><em>General information, not medical advice. Please see a doctor for any health concern.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Diabetes Day falls on November 14, which is a good reason to check your risk.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-diabetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}