Endocrinology and Complications of Diabetes

Diabetes

Diabetes is the illness in which the body does not suitably process food for use as energy. Maximum of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies nearby the stomach, generates a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies.

There are three main types of  diabetes:

Type 1: can develop at any stage, but take place most frequently in children and young people. When you have type 1 diabetes, your body yields very minute or no insulin, which means that you need daily insulin injections to maintain blood glucose levels in control.

Type 2: Type 2 diabetes is more common in adults and accounts for around 90% of all diabetes cases. When you have type 2 diabetes, your body does not make good use of the insulin that it yields. The basis of type 2 diabetes treatment is healthy lifestyle, including increased physical activity and healthy diet. However, over time most people with type 2 diabetes will have need of oral drugs and/or insulin to possess their blood glucose levels in control.

Gestational: Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a type of diabetes that contains of high blood glucose during pregnancy and is connected with complications to both mother and child. GDM usually disappears after pregnancy but women affected and their children are at increased risk of increasing type 2 diabetes earlier in life.

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