According to World Health Organization statistics, there are 1.5 million direct deaths due to diabetes in 2012, while the number of people with diabetes is about 422 million infected In 2014 according to WHO estimates. The International Diabetes Federation estimates that the number of infected people will reach 642 million by 2040.
What is diabetes ?
Diabetes is a chronic disease, resulting either from a lack of insulin production from the pancreas, or inability of the body's cells to respond to insulin, which leads to higher blood glucose level than normal.
Patterns of Diabetes
There are two main types of diabetes: the first type (the type) that is produced when the human body is unable to produce insulin due to a defect in the work of the immune system, where the immune cells attack the cells producing insulin (beta cells) in the pancreas, while type (II) The most common result is the inability of the body's cells to respond to insulin, despite the efficiency and ability of the pancreas to produce insulin, due to an unknown reason.
Children and youth are the most vulnerable to type 1 diabetes, while the second type of diabetes is more common among people over 45 years of age. Another less common pattern of the two previous types is diabetes diagnosed and detected for the first time During pregnancy, gestational diabetes is known
Symptoms of diabetes
As for the common symptoms of diabetes, the patient noted a number of symptoms, such as increased urination even during the night, and the constant thirst caused by the loss of fluids from the body because of urination, diabetes also causes extreme hunger, in addition to constant fatigue without effort, , Slow wound healing. These symptoms are not very different in the first type of type II, but the symptoms in the second type are less severe, and this delay the detection and diagnosis of those infected.
There are many similar symptoms between type I and type II, but there are some symptoms of patients with the first type, the most important of which are:
* Extreme thirst.
* The dramatic increase in urination rate.
* Feeling tired.
* Loss of muscle mass, and unexplained weight loss.
* Concussions and sudden intestinal colic.
* Misty vision due to eye dryness.
* Skin infections, with itching around the genitals.
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