Diabetes (disambiguation)

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Diabetes usually refers to diabetes mellitus, a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar.

Diabetes may also refer to a heterogeneous group of diseases that only have in common the presence of excessive urination, necessarily accompanied by the parallel symptom of excessive thirst.

Diabetes mellitus

Common types:

  • Diabetes mellitus type 1, a form of diabetes mellitus that results from autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas
  • Diabetes mellitus type 2, a metabolic disorder that is characterized by high blood glucose in the context of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency
  • Gestational diabetes, a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy
  • Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), a medical term that describes diabetes mellitus that requires insulin therapy to avoid ketoacidosis

Rare types:

Complications of diabetes mellitus:

  • Acute:
    • Diabetic coma, a reversible form of coma, a medical emergency, found in people with diabetes mellitus
    • Diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening complication in patients with diabetes mellitus
  • Chronic
    • Diabetic foot, refers to several podiatric pathologies associated with diabetes mellitus
    • Diabetic neuropathy, a disorder that is associated with diabetes mellitus
    • Diabetic retinopathy, damage to the retina of the eye caused by complications of diabetes mellitus, which can eventually lead to blindness
    • Diabetic nephropathy, damage to the kidneys and the development of proteinuria and chronic kidney disease

Diabetes insipidus

  • Diabetes insipidus (DI), unrelated to diabetes mellitus, a condition characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine

Related concepts

See also

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