Friday, November 27, 2015

What is diabetes ?

Diabetes, cancer, and heart disease today is not the monopoly of the rich but these diseases have penetrated in people with poor economic conditions indicating health emergency in slow motion. 

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which insulin hormone can not break down the glucose in the body.  The function of the hormone itself is set sugar levels in the blood so that the increased levels of sugar will cause a metabolic disorder that would impact our health. Insulin itself is produced by our body organ called the pancreas. So what was the actual glucose ? Glucose is the simplest sugar molecule for fuel body cell.

The characteristics of diabetes vary widely based on the type. There are three types of diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes, this type of diabetes usually affects children and adolescents. The characteristics of this type is the damaged of autoimmune system of cells ß-cells. The autoimmune destruction makes the pancreas can not produce insuline. As a result, people with type 1 diabetes is highly dependent on insulin therapy.

Type 2 Diabetes is the most widely experienced by people with diabetes.  Approximately 90-95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.  In people with type 2 diabetes, the pancreas still produces insulin levels very slightly.

Gestational Diabetes.  The sufferers are mostly pregnant women who had not previously been exposed to diabetes. When checked, blood sugar levels can exceed 126 mg / dL. High sugar levels in a pregnant woman will be passed on to the fetus via the placenta.  As a result, after the baby's birth.  The weight of the baby can exceeds normal limits and the baby is also at risk of diabetes are derived from mother.

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