| Author: |
| InfoShare Partner: Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) |
| Publication Date: November 2006 |
| Update Date: December 2006 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: Behavior change interventions, Nutrition, Policy/Law, Population growth/trends |
| Region: Global, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, Middle East/North Africa, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Language: English |
| Number of Pages: 4 |
| File Size: 292 KB |
| File Format: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed. Visit Adobe's web site to get a free copy of Acrobat Reader. [download here]
|
|
Provide feedback on this document to Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)
(first paragraph) Diabetes is a metabolic disease that results from defects in the secretion or activity of insulin within a person’s body.
Diabetes has many potential health complications, including coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, blindness, kidney disease, and lower-extremity amputation. There are three basic types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, which
most often strikes children and young adults, occurs when
the destruction of pancreatic cells causes insulin deficiency.
Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 85 percent to 95 percent
of all cases, is usually characterized by insulin resistance when
the body no longer uses insulin properly. A third type is
gestational diabetes, which appears only during pregnancy.
|
My BookBag: 0 Documents
Get RSS feed of latest InfoShare documents