Diabetes | How many types of diabetes are there?

In diabetes mellitus there are several main groups:

    *Diabetes mellitus type 1: It can affect people of all ages but is most common in children and young adults. Usually diagnosed before 30-40 years. Usually has an abrupt onset, with plenty of symptoms. In people with type 1 diabetes your pancreas can not produce enough insulin. Require injections of insulin to control blood glucose levels and to live. your pancreas does not produce enough insulin
   
 *Diabetes mellitus type 2: This guy is the one that affects, to 90-95% of people with diabetes. Is the most common in adults and the elderly, although it is beginning to describe his appearance in children and adolescents. Usually diagnosed over 30-40 years. Clinical course is often insidious, and is diagnosed after many years of suffering without knowing it. It is characterized but their pancreas produces insulin (sometimes in excess of normal) your body can not effectively use the insulin it produces. There is a significant hereditary component. In this type of diabetes, some insulin is produced but not enough or not working properly to take up glucose into the cells. This type of diabetes can be controlled with a diet plan and physical activity, losing weight if overweight or obese. In some cases it may be necessary to control the use of pills (oral antidiabetic drugs), and over the years, many patients may end up pricking specifying insulin to control blood sugar.
   
 *Gestational Diabetes: Known as the pregnancy that occurs in pregnant women who previously had diabetes, and disappears shortly after birth, although many of these women over the years may develop diabetes ..
 
   *Impaired fasting glucose: A pre-diabetes state in which we can not say that a person has diabetes but whose blood glucose level is not normal. Many may develop diabetes over time.
   

      Impaired Glucose Tolerance: A situation similar to hyperglycemia but is detected after performing a blood glucose curve., Having an overload of 75 grams of glucose. People whose blood contains more glucose than normal but less than they have with diabetes, are said to have impaired glucose tolerance.
   

      Other types of diabetes called secondary diabetes, are called secondary because they are owed something, due to diseases of the pancreas or endocrine (glandular), genetic diseases, or exposure to certain chemicals. There are many diseases that can cause diabetes, but more often it occurs due to certain medications that can raise blood glucose and removal of that back to normal.