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Diabetes affects the body's ability to absorb glucose, its primary fuel.
If untreated it leads to starvation or coma and death through Diabetic Ketoacidosis.
If treated but without adequate insulin and diet, Diabetes keeps blood sugar high, leading to nerve, blood vessel and kidney damage, as well as worsening pancreatic damage which in turn makes the diabetes more severe.
What else can I help you with?
How does type 2 diabestes affect the body?
Diabetes is a condition that affects how the body metabolizes sugar. Diabetes can lead to heart disease, stroke and diabetic retinopathy.
Where can diabetes be found in the body?
In the pancreas annd around the liver and small intestine,and also your stomach
Disease that affects one of the body systems?
Type 2 diabetes affects the endocrine system by causing insulin resistance.
How does physiological disease spread and who it affects?
By the malfunctioning of the body, for example an organ. Diabetes and hypertension are physiological diseases.
What horomones does diabetes mellitus affect?
Diabetes is a disease related to the hormone insulin, but it is the hormone which affects the disease, not the disease which affects the hormone.
Can you get a diabetic food list online?
Yes you can, obviously diabetes affects blood-sugar levels in the human body and choosing the right diet is very important for one who has diabetes. Hope this helps!
How does obesity affect diabetes and does losing weight help in controlling the disease?
There is a correlation between obesity and diabetes. It is not yet definite whether obesity causes diabetes, but it is certain that not maintaining a proper body weight affects the body's ability to control glucose levels. Losing weight may decrease your risk for the disease or, if you already have diabetes, may alleviate some complications.
What exactly is pediatric diabetes?
What pediatric diabetes is basically diabetes that affects the age groups within the pediatric age group. Type 1 diabetes can be associated with it.
What does diabetes have to do with blood sugar?
Diabetes is a disease that affects a lot of people, its basically when your blood sugar is too high. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes ,www.diabetes.org
How common is gestational diabetes?
Gestational diabetes affects 3-10% of all pregnant women.
One disease that affects the endcrine system?
An example of a disease that affects the endocrine system could be hypothyroidism or diabetes.
Why do some people not produce or properly use insulin?
True. Diabetes Mellitus or simply Diabetes affects more than 15 million individuals throughout the world. It is an illness resulting from lack of insulin or dysfunctional insulin in the body. Almost 40 percent of diabetic patients do not even know that they have this illness.
