Diabetes Mellitus

What´s Diabetes?What´s Diabetes?Diabetes is a group of metabolic alterations that lead to the increase of blood glucose concentration.

Why there is glucose in our blood?Why the rise of glucose is dangerous?

Glucose in blood

Excesive glucose in blood

Types of DiabetesTypes of Diabetes

There are three different types of diabetes :

Type I

Type II

Gestational

EpidemiologEpidemiologyy

Type I

It affects approximately the 10% of diabetics in the world

Type II

It affects approximately 90% of the Diabetics in the world

Gestational

It occurs in about 2%–5% of all pregnancies and may improve or disappear after delivery.

SymptoSymptomsms

Type 2 diabetes develops slowly, no symptoms at first and the suffers may not have symptoms for many years.

Symptoms of type 1 diabetes develop over a short period of time. People may be very sick by the time they are diagnosed.

Gestational Diabetes, there are no symptoms, or they are mild.The blood sugar (glucose) level usually returns to normal after delivery.

HypoglycemiaHypoglycemia What happens when our blood sugar is too low (Hypoglycemia)

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The most common causes of hypoglycemia in diabetics are :

Taking your insulin at the wrong time

Taking too much insulin by mistake

Not eating enough during meals or snacks after you have taken insulin or diabetes

Exercising more or at a different time than usual

Drinking alcohol

TreatmentTreatment “Diabetes Treatment

involves medicines, diet, and exercise”

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Resources: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000305.htmhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000313.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus#Lifestylehttp://www.health-today.org/type-1-diabetes-health-insurance-is-critical/