What is diabetes?

What is diabetes?

Diabetes is due to insufficient insulin secretion or cell metabolic syndrome caused by defective insulin protein glucose, and lipid metabolism disorders. Characterized by an abnormal concentration of glucose in the blood circulation and positive urine. If high blood sugar can experience the typical symptoms of hyperglycemia, polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia and weight loss, and is accompanied by fatigue, weakness. In patients with severe, susceptible to various infections. With the long course of the disease, metabolic disorders can lead to chronic complications of the eyes, kidneys, nerves, blood vessels and heart tissue and other organs.
What are the types of diabetes?

In accordance with the recommendations of the expert group of the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes can be divided into types type 1, type 2, and other special types and gestational diabetes. Where type 1 and type 2 is the most important of the two types of

Type 1 diabetes, also called insulin-dependent diabetes, usually occurs in children younger than 30 years old young people, because the β-cells are damaged, so the lack of insulin secretion, complementary needs for life dependent on exogenous insulin for survival.

Type 2 diabetes called diabetes mellitus non-insulin-dependent, occurs in more than 40 years, secretion, insulin elderly low not even a high clinical manifestations of the body is not sufficiently sensitive to insulin, ie insulin resistance (insulin resistance, IR). In patients with diabetes, approximately 95% of the proportion of type 2 diabetes.

Gestational diabetes is diabetes occurs during pregnancy. Pregnancy, mother and produce large amounts of various hormones. These hormones are very important for the healthy growth of the fetus, but they can also block the role of maternal insulin, causing insulin resistance, leading to maternal hyperglycemia.

Other specific types of diabetes is not a type 1 or type 2 diabetes, which is associated with gestational diabetes, including diabetes caused by pancreatic disease or endocrine disease, drug-induced diabetes and genetic diseases associated with diabetes. Other specific types of diabetes, although complex etiology, but accounted for less than 1% of the total number of patients with diabetes. Among them, some types of diabetes are the major drug-disease remission
Diabetes can be a killer all public health

A recent study showed that over the last 30 years of the adult population in the world with nearly 350 million people have diabetes, and diabetes is no longer a "disease of the rich", but has become a global problem. The researchers warn that diabetes may threaten global health 10 years into the future.
Incident Diabetes Population

Harvard's longest and largest study in the world of epidemiology, people in Asia after the age of 18 years, any weight increased 5 kg, 2-fold increased risk of diabetes, the rate is much higher than blacks and Caucasians.

Medical staff warned, Asian, black and Latino groups are prone to diabetes population, therefore, should strengthen prevention. Some Asian body fat is more likely to accumulate in the stomach or a "dangerous position" other, produce an effect on appetite hormones, so people who are already overweight, eat more, and thus increase the risk of diabetes.
Dangers of diabetes

Although diabetes is familiar, but awareness of the dangers still not enough!

Uremia, blindness, non-traumatic amputations are caused by diabetes on the citizens of Europe and the United States, in recent years, the survey showed that three quarters of coronary heart disease and high blood sugar, and nearly half of patients with cerebrovascular diabetes. Number of findings of the survey in the hospital, more than half of diagnosed diabetes complications of neuropathy, it was found that patients at risk of developing diabetes digestive system tumors, significantly increases the risk of breast tumors. Over time, serious diabetes complications in the future will become more and more again. Therefore, diabetes and other chronic disease prevention and control has become a major public health problem in this country.