Diabetes Information
It is a word that each and every soul on the earth knows about. It is the inability of the body to control the desired levels of blood sugar or say the desired levels of insulin. Once the amount of body insulin increases above a certain age, we say that the person is diabetic. Then the long race of getting the insulin level under control with lots of medicines, changing the food habits, reducing the sweet intake etc. starts.
Now what the hell is blood sugar level? The enhanced state of blood sugar level is known as hyperglycemia. The hormone insulin controls this level. Thus layman says that it is the insulin level that has increased but it is actually the blood sugar level. There are mainly three types of diabetes and all differ due to the secretion properties. The first one is type1 diabetes which is also known as insulin dependent diabetes. This kind of diabetes occurs at the age of 20-30. This is why sometimes people refer to it as juvenile diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes or diabetes II is something that happens in the later stage of life and hence is referred to as adult onset diabetes because it was considered to take place in the later half of the person’s life. Some people also refer to it as insulin resistance.
The third one is known as the Gestational diabetes that occurs during the pregnancy period due to certain hormonal changes in the body. This is not as common as the other two types.
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