Diabetes & Hormones

Diabetes mellitus - Classification / Definitions

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by elevated levels of glucose in the blood (hyperglycemia) resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both (American Diabetes Association [ADA], Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus, 2003). Normally a certain amount of glucose circulates in the blood.

The primary feature of this disorder is elevation in blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia), resulting from either a defect in insulin secretion from the pancreas, a change in insulin action, or both.

Diabetes Complications

Diabetes Mellitus

• - Essentials of diagnosis
• - Epidemiologic Considerations
• - Classification & Pathogenesis
• - Clinical Findings
• - Differential Diagnosis
• - Clinical Trials in Diabetes
• - Treatment Regimens

Diabetes & Oral Health

• - Introduction
• - Epidemiology and classification

Diabetes Complications & Prevention

• - The Glucose Connection
• - Other Things You Can Do
• - Dealing with Complications
• - Cardiovascular Disease
• - Retinopathy
• - Nephropathy
• - Neuropathy
• - Types of Neuropathy and Treatment
• - Infections
• Diabetes Chronic Complications
• - Ocular complications
• - Diabetic Nephropathy
• - Cardiovascular complications
• - Skin and Mucous membrane complications

Hypoglycemia

• Hypoglycemia
• - Introduction
• - Clinical Manifestations
• - Causes
• - Diagnosis
• - Treatment

• - Alcohol-Related Hypoglycemia
• - Factitious Hypoglycemia
• - Immunopathologic Hypoglycemia
• - Drug-Induced Hypoglycemia