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Diabetes mellitus is caused by a lack of a hormone. This hormone is insulin. Insulin is required for the body's cells to take in glucose. Insulin helps transport glucose into the cell across the cell membrane. Glucose is what the cell uses to make energy to run itself.

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Doña Felisa is an elderly lady who has a deficiency of the hormone insulin which causes the deficiency disease?

A deficiency of insulin causes diabetes mellitus.


What hormone deficiency causes diabetes mellitus?

Type 1 diabetes is caused by a deficiency of insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates blood sugar levels. This results in high blood sugar levels, leading to the symptoms of diabetes mellitus.


Which type of diabetes is due to a deficiency in the secretion of antidiuretic hormone?

Diabetes insipidus


What hyposecretion causes diabetes insipudus?

Hyposecretion of vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone) by the pituitary gland is the main cause of diabetes insipidus. This hormone helps regulate water balance in the body, and a deficiency leads to excessive urination and thirst characteristic of diabetes insipidus.


What hormone deficiency causes dehydration and tremendous thirst?

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What hormone deficiency causes hearing loss?

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What hormone deficiency cause sexual immaturity?

The hormone that causes sexual immaturity when deficient is the sex hormone. For women especially estrogen deficiency can cause sexual immaturity.


What disease can result from antidiuretic hormone deficiency?

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What type of diabetes is due to a deficiency of the secretion of antidiuretic hormone?

Hypothalamic ("central") diabetes insipidus. It is a hormonal disorder, in what either not enough antidiuretic hormone was made by hypothalamus, or not enough was released by the pituitary gland. The result is frequent, large volume urination as the body's water (fluid) balancing ability is disturbed.


What hormone causes you to get type 1 diabetes?

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What is the medical definition of a growth hormone deficiency?

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Why growth hormone deficiency causes hYpoglycemia?

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