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<<HOME <<Causes & Symptoms HOMECauses and Sysmptoms of Diabetes
Main Causes of Diabetes are:
- Type1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder
It's supposed that a grouping of genetic tendency and some other unknown causes aggravate the immune system to attack and kill the insulin-creating cells in the pancreas and that causes type 1 diabetes.
- Insulin resistance mainly causes type 2 diabetes
In this case no matter how much insulin is produced, because the body can't use it. Because of this restriction glucose can't be moved from the blood into cells. After sometime the extra sugar in the blood slowly start poisoning the pancreas that causes reduction in insulin production, and making it harder to keep blood glucose under control and finally causes condition of type 2 diabetes.
- Obesity is one of the main causes of insulin resistance; Maximum overweighed people are suffering from type 2 diabetes.
- There are possibly genetic factors involved in the cause of type 2 diabetes. A family history increases the chances of getting it.
- Other factors that causes development of diabetes include:
- Being 40 years of age or older
- Impaired fasting of glucose
- A history of gestational diabetes
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Giving birth to a large child
- High blood pressure and High cholesterol
- Blood vessel disease
Symptoms of diabetes include:
- Frequency of urination is more than normal and every time you feel very dehydrated and hungry.
- Drowsiness is normal and the sufferer tends to lose weight easily without any extra effort.
- Blurred vision is one more key symptom of diabetes.
- Infections occur simply and healing is usually very slow and it depends on the stage of diabetes.
- In diabetes fluid drained out from the cells that causes dry and itchy skin. There is also an irritation in the hands and feet.
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