Diabetes

Summary

Diabetes is a common endocrine disorder, that can affect people of any age or gender. Diabetes in medical terminology is known as Diabetes mellitus, It is identified by the presence of high blood glucose (sugar) levels in the bloodstream. Diabetes can be categorised into Type 1 and Type 2 mainly. The other categories are juvenile, gestational and prediabetes. Medical researchers are trying to find a complete cure to diabetes because diabetes is often associated with serious complications and comorbid health conditions such as blindness, cardiovascular diseases, and amputations etc especially when this condition is not managed properly. However, it has been observed that alterations in lifestyle, diet, medicines, exercises and certain therapies can help people arrest the disease at an early stage and effectively manage diabetes.

What is Diabetes?

Let's make it simple for you

Diabetes is an umbrella term given to a group of conditions which exhibit high levels of glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream. Diabetes is a fast approaching global epidemic with more than 73 million cases in India alone. The condition is often long-term and can lead to a number of chronic conditions if not treated and managed effectively on time. Diabetes, as believed earlier, is not a condition which triggers due to growing age, in fact, diabetes can affect anyone regardless of the age and sex. However, some medical studies indicate that people over 40 years are more at risk and prone to develop diabetes than any other age groups.

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