Diabetes mellitus is a disease where the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone that helps the body’s tissues for glucose (sugar) so it can be used as a source of energy. The condition may also develop if muscle, fat and liver cells respond poorly to insulin. In people with diabetes, building glucose in [...]

About a quarter of people with new type 1 diabetes have developed some degree of diabetic ketoacidosis (a type of metabolic acidosis which is caused by high concentrations of ketone bodies, formed by the breakdown of fatty acids and the deamination of amino acids) by the time the diabetes is recognized. The diagnosis of other [...]

The digestive system builds the dietary carbohydrates that are contained in, for example, sugar, bread and other cereal products, to glucose (dextrose) from. This is absorbed by the intestinal wall into the blood and distributed throughout the body. The pancreas produces in ?-cells of the islets of Langerhans of the insulin hormone. Insulin increases in [...]

What is Diabetes? Diabetes mellitus or commonly called diabetes, is a condition when body can not produce enough insulin; or when body can not use insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, which is needed to convert glucose into energy for daily life. Most of the food we eat is broken down [...]