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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Group of endocrine diseases characterized by high blood sugar levels This article is about the common insulin disorder. For the urine hyper-production disorder, see Diabetes insipidus. For other uses, see Diabetes (disambiguation). Medical condition Diabetes Universal blue circle symbol ...
During her 50 years of work, White managed the deliveries of over 2200 women with diabetes and the supervision of some 10,000 cases of type 1 diabetes. After her retirement, she kept in touch with colleges and continued to be involved in the wider community of diabetics, chiefly through caring for and working on the emotional problems of young ...
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Gestational diabetes – Gestational diabetes, is a temporary condition that is first diagnosed during pregnancy. Like type 1 and type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes causes blood sugar levels to become too high. It involves an increased risk of developing diabetes for both mother and child.
Diabetes was one of the first diseases ever described, dating back to an Egyptian manuscript from c. 1500 BCE. [21] Type 1 and type 2 diabetes were identified as separate conditions in 400–500 CE with type 1 associated with youth and type 2 with being overweight. [22] The importance of insulin in the disease was determined in the 1920s. [23]
This category includes pages directly related to diabetes mellitus ("sugar diabetes"), but does not include pages related to diabetes insipidus, an unrelated medical condition. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Type 3 diabetes is a proposed pathological linkage between Alzheimer's disease and certain features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. [1] Specifically, the term refers to a set of common biochemical and metabolic features seen in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, and in other tissues in diabetes; [1] [2] it may thus be considered a "brain-specific type of diabetes."
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (fl. 30 BC – 50 AD), who interpreted Greek works in Latin, provided an early clinical description of diabetes in his eight-volume work titled De Medicina. [9] He wrote that "urine exceeds in quantity the fluid taken even if it is passed painlessly."