Diabetes (disambiguation)

Diabetes is a term used for some medical conditions, which have excessive urination as a prominent symptom. This page serves to help you find the article you want.

Diabetes insipidus, describes the condition in which the excessive urination is due to insufficient effect of antidiuretic hormone (ADH). Diabetes mellitus describes the condition in which the excessive urination is caused by high blood levels of glucose (a sugar).

There are three main articles about diabetes mellitus

• Diabetes mellitus is a general introduction to diabetes mellitus and highlights the similarities and differences between its three sub-types.
• Diabetes mellitus type 1, in which high blood glucose is caused by insulin deficiency. This type usually develops before the age of 30 years.
• Diabetes mellitus type 2, in which high blood glucose is related to resistance of the bodies tissues to the action of insulin, impaired insulin secretion and/or increased glucose production. The occurrence rate of this type of diabetes increases with age but it also occurs in obese children.
• Gestational diabetes mellitus, in which changes in insulin resistance, related to pregnancy, causes high blood glucose. This is not the same as ‘Diabetes in Pregnancy’, which is when a person previously diagnosed with diabetes mellitus becomes pregnant.

The terms insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus are no longer used to classify diabetes mellitus because people with any type of diabetes mellitus may need treatment with insulin.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same or a similar title.