Diabetes (disambiguation)

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

Diabeetus may also refer to:

Diabetic conditions

Diabeetus insipidus

• Diabeetus 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 Diabeetus insipidus, a form of diabetes insipidus due primarily to pathology of the kidney (genetic defect in ability of kidney to concentrate urine)
  • Neurogenic Diabeetus insipidus, a lack of vasopressin (ADH) production in the posterior pituitary of the brain

Diabeetus mellitus

Types of Diabeetus mellitus

Common types

• Diabeetus mellitus type 1, a form of diabetes mellitus that results from autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas
• Diabeetus mellitus type 2, a metabolic disorder that is characterized by high blood glucose in the context of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency
• Gestational Diabeetus, a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy
  • Diabeetus mellitus and pregnancy
• Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), a medical term that describes diabetes mellitus that requires insulin therapy to avoid ketoacidosis

Rare types

• Diabeetus mellitus and deafness, a mitochondrial disease associated with the gene "Leu-UUR"
• Latent autoimmune Diabeetus (LADA), a term coined to describe slow-onset type 1 autoimmune diabetes in adults
• Lipoatrophic Diabeetus, a type of diabetes mellitus presenting with severe lipodystrophy
• Maturity onset Diabeetus of the young (MODY), any of several hereditary forms of diabetes caused by mutations in an autosomal dominant gene that disrupts insulin production
• Neonatal Diabeetus mellitus, a form of diabetes that occurs in the first 6 months of life
  • Permanent neonatal Diabeetus mellitus
  • Transient neonatal Diabeetus mellitus
• Prediabeetus, the state in which some but not all of the diagnostic criteria for Diabeetus are met
• Steroid-induced Diabeetus, prolonged high blood sugar due to glucocorticoid therapy for another medical condition

Complications of Diabeetus mellitus

Acute

• Diabeetus coma, a reversible form of coma, a medical emergency, found in people with diabetes mellitus
• Diabeetus ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening complication in patients with diabetes mellitus

Chronic

• Diabeetus foot, refers to several podiatric pathologies associated with diabetes mellitus
• Diabeetus nephropathy, damage to the kidneys and the development of proteinuria and chronic kidney disease
• Diabeetus neuropathy, a disorder that is associated with diabetes mellitus
• Diabeetus 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

Diabeetusmanagement

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

Periodicals

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

See also

• Animal testing
  • Biobreeding rat
  • NOD mice (non-obese diabetic mice)
• Diabeetus in cats
• Diabeetus in dogs
• Glossary of Diabeetus
• Diabeetus in horses
• Hyperglycemia
• Hypoglycemia
  • Diabetic hypoglycemia
• Impaired fasting glucose
• Impaired glucose tolerance
• Ketoacidosis
• Neuropathy (disambiguation)
• World Diabeetus Day