Diabetes

Diabetes is an inability to maintain healthy levels of glucose in the blood, resulting in many symptoms that can affect the entire body and lead to life-threatening complications.

This is usually due to the fact that the body can no longer absorb sugar in its tissues, either because the hormone insulin needed to trigger its absorption is missing or ineffective.

Diabetes type 1

Type 1 diabetes is a loss of insulin caused by the destruction of cells in the pancreas by the hands of the body's immune system. The lifetime condition is usually diagnosed relatively early in life and is treated by monitoring sugar levels, adjusting the diet and maintaining insulin levels through regular injections.

Although its cause is not always clear, the disease exists in families, indicating a genetic role and possible early environmental factors. This makes it less likely that we see a way to prevent the disease in the future.

But treatments are advancing with constant technological progress, with a long-term goal of matching the insulin balancing mechanisms of insulin cells lost with electronic solutions, transplants or a hybrid solutions.

Type 2 diabetes

About 85 to 90% of chronic diabetics belong to the second category of the disease. This is due to the pancreas that gradually loses its ability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin or body tissues that develop resistance to the effect of the hormone.

Unlike type 1 diabetes, it progresses throughout life due to genetics, diet, or other effects such as obesity or polycystic ovary syndrome, which means that 39, it is often diagnosed only after the middle age. It is often preceded by a condition called prediabetes, in which the blood glucose is high but the symptoms have not yet appeared.

As with type 1 diabetes, people with type 2 manage the condition by monitoring their diet and blood sugar levels, and providing them with precise doses of insulin, if any.

Gestational Diabetes

As its name suggests, gestational diabetes is a disease that affects women during pregnancy. About 15% of pregnancies will be affected between the 24th and 28th week of gestation. This is due to the fact that the insulin-blocking hormones of the placenta create an increased demand for insulin in the body.

This is a normal part of pregnancy, but this increased pressure on the insulin production system can exacerbate any pre-existing problems, such as low levels of underlying insulin resistance.

Unlike other forms of diabetes, this acute condition is relatively temporary, with most mothers recovering a normal insulin response after birth. Although this may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later.