Monday, May 16, 2011

Types of diabetes
10/28/2009:: Diabetes

American Diabetes Association adopted the following classification in 1979.

Type -1, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
Type-2, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

There are two other forms of diabetes known as gestational diabetes and secondary diabetes. There is also a special form of diabetes in India called malnutrition related diabetes.

Type-1-insulin-dependent diabetes

This is the most serious form of diabetes. It develops when pancreas makes little or no insulin. Without insulin the blood sugar is not getting into the cells and accumulating in the blood. People with type 1 diabetes depend on injections of insulin to regulate their smaller metabolism.

Type-2 non insulin dependent diabetes

This form of diabetes is also known as adult diabetes. It rarely develops before the age of 40 years, although it can occur at any time. Infect the prevalence of type-2-diabetes in youth in the cause. But because the symptoms are milk, these may not notice, and the condition is discovered in a long period, and until later years.

A common factor in both type 1 and type-2 diabetes is elevated blood sugar. But in contrast to type 1 diabetes, type-2 is not a disease of the immune system. While people with type 1 diabetes need insulin to live, most of them with type-2 diabetes are able to control the disease and even reverse it. This is made possible by a combination of proper diet, proper weight control and adequate exercise.

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