Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes is known as Diabetes mellitus in Latin, English and many other languages.

Diabetes is a metabolic disease, which leads almost all systems of organism to malfunctioning that is revealed through a rise of glucose level in blood and sometimes even in urine.

Diabetes is the disease, which has developed mostly in the modern period. It is caused by both the change in the energetic value of food and hypo-dynamia (too little daily physical activity).

The World Health Organization identifies some categories of diabetes:

Type 1 of diabetes – the insulin dependent;

Type 2 of diabetes – damaged sensitivity and receptivity of tissues towards insulin;

Type 3 of diabetes – pregnancy diabetes  

The most serious problem relates to the fact that diabetes is a risk factor and it initiates many other serious diseases such as ischemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, cardiac insufficiency, strokes, brain injury, etc.

In Israel, 90% of patients with diabetes suffer from diabetes Type 2 while 10% - from diabetes Type 1. The type 2 diabetes is rated as reason No 4 for lethality cases. 

Diabetes can lead to blindness, renal failure that, in its turn, may lead to dialysis or even to kidney replacement.    

All this may happen if the diagnosis has not been found or a patient is not treated correctly! We know that in many cases, the progression of the disease could be slowed down or even postponed that would provide people a high quality life for long years.