What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar. This is due to a lack of insulin secretion or impaired work on insulin.
This is closely related to genetic factors. High blood sugar and long-term metabolic disorders will make organs such as the eyes, kidneys, blood vessels and nervous system damage, disorders and even organ failure.
Diabetes can be divided into 4 categories:
- Type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is usually referred to as insulin-dependent diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes come from many children or adolescents. This type of diabetes is probably a type of immune disease.
In this state, the immune system attacks the beta cells that produce insulin, thus causing our body to not produce insulin. Patients should perform insulin injections to control blood sugar in the body. It is a genetically inherited genetic disease.
In this state, the immune system attacks the beta cells that produce insulin, thus causing our body to not produce insulin. Patients should perform insulin injections to control blood sugar in the body. It is a genetically inherited genetic disease.
- Type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is also referred to as diabetes that is not dependent on insulin. This type is often found in adults (especially in people with obesity). This type can make the patient become thin.
The causes of the illness include:- Low insulin, so the body can not use insulin effectively
- Insulin production is decreased so it can not meet the needs of our bodies.
- Gestational Diabetes
This is a complication that arises in the perinatal period. This diabetes can lead to complications of fetal malformations, fetal distress, fetal death, hypoglycemia in newborns, infants too large, difficulty or death at delivery.
- Other types of diabetes
- Disability of beta-cell genes (beta cells that produce insulin)
- Insulin resistance
- Pancreatic disease
- Hormonal imbalances
- Chemicals or medicines
- Derived factors
- Psychic factors
- Excessive consumption in the long run
- Obesity factor
- Pregnancy
- Infection
- Genetic factors
No matter what type of diabetes, no matter whether it arises because it is downgraded, due to environmental factors, due to a viral infection. The conclusion is that the disease is caused by genetic damage. It may be said that diabetes is a genetic disease.
