Diabetes (disambiguation)

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.

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
  • Diabetes mellitus and pregnancy
• Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), a medical term that describes diabetes mellitus that requires insulin therapy to avoid ketoacidosis

Rare types

• Diabetes mellitus and deafness, a mitochondrial disease associated with the gene "Leu-UUR"
• Latent autoimmune diabetes, a term coined to describe slow-onset type 1 autoimmune diabetes in adults
• Diabetes type 1.5 (comprising LADA and ketosis-prone type 2)
• Lipoatrophic diabetes, a type of diabetes mellitus presenting with severe lipodystrophy
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY), any of several hereditary forms of diabetes caused by mutations in an autosomal dominant gene that disrupts insulin production
• Neonatal diabetes mellitus, a form of diabetes that occurs in the first 6 months of life
  • Permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus
  • Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus
• Prediabetes, the state in which some but not all of the diagnostic criteria for diabetes are met
• Steroid-induced diabetes, prolonged high blood sugar due to glucocorticoid therapy for another medical condition

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 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
  • Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a form of diabetes insipidus due primarily to pathology of the kidney (genetic defect in ability of kidney to concentrate urine)
  • Neurogenic diabetes insipidus, a lack of vasopressin (ADH) production in the posterior pituitary of the brain

Related concepts

• Diabetes (journal), a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1952 by the American Diabetes
• Diabetes management, a system to monitor and maintain the impaired glucose cycle that results from diabetes
  • Diabetic diet
  • Anti-diabetic medication
  • Insulin therapy
  • Diabetes management software, runs on personal computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to help persons with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes manage their disease

See also

• Glossary of diabetes
• Animal testing
  • Biobreeding rat
  • NOD mice (non-obese diabetic mice)
• Diabetes in cats
• Diabetes in dogs
• Ketoacidosis
• Diabetes in horses
• Impaired fasting glucose
• Impaired glucose tolerance
• Neuropathy (disambiguation)
• World Diabetes Day

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