Everything You Need to Know About Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar. The hormone insulin moves sugar from the blood into your cells to be stored or used for energy. With diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t effectively use the insulin it does make.

Untreated high blood sugar from diabetes can damage your nerves, eyes, kidneys, and other organs.

There are a few different types of diabetes:

• Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks and destroys cells in the pancreas, where insulin is made. It’s unclear what causes this attack. About 10 percent of people with diabetes have this type.
•   Prediabetes occurs when your blood sugar is higher than normal, but it’s not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
• Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar during pregnancy. Insulin-blocking hormones produced by the placenta cause this type of diabetes

Diabetes Risk Factors

Certain factors increase your risk for diabetes.

Type 1 Diabetes

You’re more likely to get type 1 diabetes if you’re a child or teenager, you have a parent or sibling with the condition, or you carry certain genes that are linked to the disease.

Type 2 Diabetes

Your risk for type 2 diabetes increases if you:

• Are overweight
• Are age 45 or older
• Have a parent or sibling with the condition
• Aren’t physically active
• Have had gestational diabetes
• Have prediabetes
• Have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or high triglycerides

Gestational Diabetes

Your risk for gestational diabetes increases if you:

• Are overweight
• Are over age 25
• Had gestational diabetes during a past pregnancy
• Have given birth to a baby weighing more than 9 pounds
• Have a family history of type 2 diabetes
• Have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

The Bottom Line

Your family, environment, and preexisting medical conditions can all affect your odds of developing diabetes.

Never wait for Diabetes to strike you before you take action over your health, start monitoring you sugar level and regulate it before is too late.

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