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Complications Of Diabetes

27 April, 2013 (17:45) | General | By:

People with diabetes are more likely to suffer problems with your feet. Diabetes can cause damage to blood vessels and nerves, and decrease the body’s ability to fight infections. Complications of diabetes hard life and characterized by high levels of sugar in the blood.Causes insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood glucose. Diabetes can be caused by too little production of insulin, resistance to it or both. To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process by which foods are broken down and used by the body as energy.

Several things happen when food is digested: A sugar called glucose, which is the source of energy for the body, enters the bloodstream. An organ called the pancreas produces insulin, whose role is to transport glucose from the bloodstream to the muscles, fat and liver cells, where it can be used as energy. People with diabetes have Hyperglycemia, since: the pancreas does not produce enough insulin muscles, fat, and liver cells do not respond normally to insulin all the above reasons there are three major types of diabetes: Diabetes type 1: it is usually diagnosed in childhood, but many patients receive diagnosis when they have more than 20 years. In this disease, the body does not produce or produces little insulin, and daily injections of this hormone are needed. The exact cause is unknown, but genetics, viruses and autoimmune problems may play a role.

Type 2 diabetes: it is far more common than type 1 and corresponds to the majority of all cases of diabetes. It usually occurs in adulthood, though increasingly in young people it is diagnosed. The pancreas does not produce enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels normal, often, since the body does not respond well to the insulin. Many people with this type of diabetes don’t even know they have it despite being one serious illness.