What disease is diabetes?

The World Health Organization and the International Diabetes Federation have designated 165438+ 10/4 as World Diabetes Day every year. Diabetes is a disease in which there is sugar in urine due to the increase of blood sugar. The main problems of diabetes are insufficient insulin secretion (insufficient insulin quantity) and insulin resistance (poor insulin effect). Because insulin is the only hypoglycemic hormone in human body, insufficient insulin secretion or poor effect will lead to disorder of glucose metabolism, accompanied by disorder of fat, protein, water and salt, so diabetes is also called metabolic disease.

Typical symptoms of diabetes include drinking more, urinating more, eating more and losing weight. Not all diabetics have obvious typical symptoms. It is found that the interval between onset and diagnosis of some diabetic patients can reach 10 years.

The main causes of diabetes are genetic factors and environmental factors. Diabetes is hereditary. It is not diabetes itself, but the genes that are easy to get diabetes. For example, 1 diabetes is mainly inherited by genes that make islets vulnerable to virus invasion and autoimmune damage. Children are more prone to 1 diabetes and need long-term use of insulin. The environmental factors that induce diabetes include unhealthy lifestyle, excessive calorie intake, preference for sweets, little exercise, obesity, smoking, excessive stress and so on.

At present, diabetes is incurable, just like hypertension, some people have to take medicine for life, but after a period of treatment, especially diet therapy and exercise therapy, blood sugar can be maintained within the normal range. If it is not controlled, the blood sugar will rise and fall, resulting in acute and chronic complications of diabetes, such as eye invasion, blindness, kidney invasion and renal failure. Many diabetics die not because of diabetes, but because of complications. Get some knowledge about diabetes health, adhere to scientific diet therapy, exercise therapy and diabetes monitoring, and use some drugs and insulin therapy when necessary, which is what we call the "troika" to control blood sugar at a satisfactory level.

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