Diabetes : Definition, Types, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

February 1, 2016 admin 0 Comments

  Definition : Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a set of related diseases in which the body cannot regulate the amount of sugar (specifically, glucose) in the blood. The blood delivers glucose to provide the body with energy to perform all of a person’s daily activities.   The liver converts the food a person eats into …

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What is Type 2 Diabetes?

September 23, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or whatever insulin produced is not used by the body’s cells in what is called insulin resistance. Our body needs insulin to convert glucose into energy. It is the most common type of diabetes and unlike type 1 diabetes manifests mainly in adults …

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Different Kinds Of Diabetes

August 24, 2012 admin 0 Comments

Diabetes is a condition of elevated blood sugar. When the body does not produce or cannot function properly with the insulin it produces, it has damaging effects on metabolism. If insulin is not readily available to remove glucose from the blood into cells, it results to high blood glucose which is toxic. If the basic …

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