What Is Diabetes?


Diabetes is a chronic disease occurs when the pancreas does not produce insulin in sufficient quantity, or when the body can use that material effectively. Insulin is a hormone that regulates sugar in the blood. And the high level of sugar in the blood of a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious damage in many of the body, especially the nerves and blood vessels.

Type 1 diabetes: defining feature of this pattern (which was formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes or diabetes which appears in childhood) lack of insulin production. This pattern leads to the death of a patient quickly if what he did not use insulin daily.
Of the symptoms of this disease excessive excretion of urine, feeling thirsty, feeling constant hunger, weight loss, vision changes, and fatigue. And can show these symptoms suddenly.
Type 2 diabetes: this pattern occurs (which was formerly called diabetes is insulin-dependent or diabetes  adult-onset) because the body's use of insulin is not effective. It is worth mentioning that 90% of people with diabetes around the world are the cases of type 2, which appears mainly the result of excess weight and lack of physical activity.
Symptoms may be similar to those of the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes, they do not appear clearly in many cases. The disease may be diagnosed several years after the onset of symptoms, ie, after the onset of complications.
Did not record this type of diabetes, until recently, only in adults. But it is now also occurring in obese children.
Gestational diabetes: a high level of sugar in the blood, which is first recognized during pregnancy.
Symptoms of gestational diabetes are similar to type 2. Gestational diabetes is diagnosed, often, through prenatal screening, rather than reported symptoms.
And Impaired glucose tolerance  with fasting  in two phases and feedstocks in the process of transition from normal to diabetes. And persons who suffer from these two Alachtlalin are at high risk of type 2 diabetes, although this is not inevitable.
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4/29/2011 5:28:28 AM