Diabetes (disambiguation)

Diabetes usually refers to diabetes mellitus, a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood glucose levels over a prolonged period.

Diabetes may also refer to a heterogeneous group of diseases that only have in common excessive urination and thirst:

Diabetic conditions

Diabetes insipidus

• Diabetes insipidus (DI), a condition characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine (unrelated to the high blood sugar levels of diabetes mellitus)
  • Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a form of diabetes insipidus due primarily to pathology of the kidney (genetic defect in ability of kidney to concentrate urine)
  • Neurogenic diabetes insipidus, a lack of vasopressin (ADH) production in the hypothalamus of the brain

Diabetes mellitus

Types of diabetes mellitus

Common types

• Diabetes mellitus type 1, a form of diabetes mellitus that results from autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas
• Diabetes mellitus type 2, a metabolic disorder that is characterized by high blood glucose in the context of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency
• Diabetes mellitus type 3, a proposed term by researchers for describing the link between Alzheimer's disease and Diabetes.
• Diabetes mellitus type 4, a proposed term to describe specific kinds of metabolic disorders involving long-term high blood pressure
• Gestational diabetes, a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy. Sometimes referred to as Type 4 Diabetes.
  • Diabetes mellitus and pregnancy
• Diabetes mellitus type 5, a proposed term to describe the link between Parkinson's disease and diabetes.

Rare types

• Diabetes mellitus and deafness, a mitochondrial disease associated with the gene "Leu-UUR"
• Latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA), a term coined to describe slow-onset type 1 autoimmune diabetes in adults
• Lipoatrophic diabetes, a type of diabetes mellitus presenting with severe lipodystrophy
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY), any of several genetic forms of diabetes caused by mutations in an autosomal dominant gene that disrupts insulin production or action
• Neonatal diabetes mellitus, a form of diabetes that occurs in the first 6 months of life
  • Permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus
  • Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus
• Prediabetes, a state of elevated blood sugar that falls below the thresholds for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus
• Steroid-induced diabetes, prolonged high blood sugar due to glucocorticoid therapy for another medical condition

Complications of diabetes mellitus

Acute

• Diabetic coma, a reversible form of coma, a medical emergency, found in people with diabetes mellitus with a extremely elevated blood sugar
• Diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening complication in patients with diabetes mellitus (usually type 1)

Chronic

• Diabetic foot, refers to several podiatric pathologies associated with diabetes mellitus
• Diabetic nephropathy, damage to the kidneys and the development of proteinuria and chronic kidney disease
• Diabetic neuropathy, a disorder that is associated with diabetes mellitus
• Diabetic retinopathy, damage to the retina of the eye caused by complications of diabetes mellitus, which can eventually lead to diabetic nephropathy, damage to the kidneys and the development of proteinuria, and chronic kidney disease

Diabetes in animals

• Diabetes in cats
• Diabetes in dogs
• Diabetes in horses

Diabetes management

• Diabetes management, a system to monitor and maintain the impaired glucose cycle that results from diabetes
  • Anti-diabetic medication
  • Diabetes management software, runs on personal computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to help persons with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes manage their disease
  • Diabetic diet
  • Insulin therapy

Periodicals

• Diabetes (journal), a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1952 by the American Diabetes Association
• Diabetes Care, a peer-reviewed medical journal published since 1978 by the American Diabetes Association

See also

• Glossary of diabetes
  • Diabetic hypoglycemia
• World Diabetes Day