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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 Learning Center

After many years, diabetes can lead to serious problems with your eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, blood vessels, and other areas in your body.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 20, 2009
Diabetic nephropathy is kidney disease or damage that results as a complication of diabetes. See also: Type 1 diabetes; Type 2 diabetes; Risk factors for diabetes; Chronic kidney disease.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 20, 2009
Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the eye's retina that occurs with long-term diabetes. See also: Type 1 diabetes; Type 2 diabetes.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 20, 2009
Dhiabetic foot infections are infections that can develop in the skin, muscles, or bones of the foot as a result of the nerve damage and poor circulation that is associated with diabetes.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Diabetic hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS) is a complication of type 2 diabetes that involves extremely high blood sugar (glucose) levels without the presence of ketones. Ketones are byproducts of fat breakdown.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 6, 2008
Diabetic neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes, in which nerves are damaged as a result of high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 20, 2008
Diabetic neuropathy (DN) is a neurological disorder caused by consequences of a primary disease—diabetes mellitus. The diabetic neuropathy may be diffuse, affecting multiple parts of the body, or focal, targeting a specific nerve or body part.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Diabetic neuropathy is a nerve disorder caused by diabetes mellitus . Diabetic neuropathy may be diffuse, affecting several parts of the body, or focal, affecting a specific nerve and part of the body.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a complication of diabetes that occurs when the body cannot use sugar (glucose) as a fuel source because the body has no insulin or not enough insulin, and fat is used instead. Byproducts of fat breakdown, called ketones, ...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 20, 2009
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a dangerous complication of diabetes mellitus in which the chemical balance of the body becomes far too acidic.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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