Introduction to Diabetes - The Genetic Landscape of.
Pre-diabetes is a warning sign that you are at risk for getting type 2 diabetes, meaning that your blood sugar is higher than it should be (Rea, 2008). We have a chance of either having an incurable disease or making healthy lifestyle changes that will impact us for the rest of our lives.
The latest data indicates that there are now 2.8 million of people with diabetes in UK and nine out of ten people diagnosed with diabetes are Type 2 diabetes (2.5 millions). According to health experts, UK is now facing a huge public health problem and the figure is set to rise to four million by the year 2025.
Introduction Diabetes (Diabetes mellitus) is a group of diseases that negatively affect the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin. This results in elevated levels of glucose in the blood because the body cannot metabolize carbohydrates correctly.
Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood. Diabetes is caused by a problem in the way your body makes or uses insulin. Insulin is needed to move blood sugar into cells, where it is stored and later used for energy.
In addition to diet, medication and exercise play a key role in controlling this disease. Currently, there is no known cure for diabetes. Introduction Diabetes is a chronic disease marked by high levels of glucose in the blood. There are several major forms of diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes, is often called juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is a disease that affects the pancreas and causes the islet cells in the pancreas to not secrete insulin.Since the body is not producing any insulin, your blood glucose in uncontrolled and becomes extremely high, this is known as hyperglycemia.Hyperglycemia causes the body to feel exhausted; it can affect your eyesight and other issues.
Gestational diabetes: consequences for fetal programming of vascular disease in adulthood. Introduction. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) occurs when there is a glucose intolerance that is first detected during pregnancy. It is a form of hyperglycaemia (Buchanan and Xiang 2005).