macrovascular complications. The complications of diabetes can dramatically impair quality of life and cause long-lasting disability. Overall, complications are...

can lead to various health complications, including disorders of the cardiovascular system, eye, kidney, and nerves. Diabetes accounts for approximately...

modifications are considered cornerstones of management. If left untreated, diabetes can cause many complications. Complications of relatively rapid onset include...

The following is a glossary of diabetes which explains terms connected with diabetes. Contents:  Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X References...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D), formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, is a form of diabetes mellitus that is characterized by high blood sugar, insulin resistance...

Other goals of diabetes management are to prevent or treat complications that can result from the disease itself and from its treatment. Diabetes is a chronic...

various types of nerve damage associated with diabetes mellitus. The most common form, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, affects 30% of all diabetic patients...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes mellitus. Signs and symptoms may include vomiting, abdominal pain...

of complications of diabetes and as an assessment of glycemic control. The test is considered a three-month average because the average lifespan of a...

Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) refers to any of several hereditary forms of diabetes mellitus caused by mutations in an autosomal dominant...

central role in the pathophysiology of many of the complications of diabetes mellitus, including cardiovascular complications. AGEs are chemical groups that...

considered an early stage of diabetes as health complications associated with type 2 diabetes often occur before the diagnosis of diabetes. Prediabetes can be...

a life-threatening but reversible form of coma found in people with diabetes mellitus. Three different types of diabetic coma are identified: Severe low...

& Rickels 2022, "Mechanisms of Complications". Powers, Stafford & Rickels 2022, "Ophthalmologic Complications of Diabetes". Vujosevic et al. 2020, "Risk...

A complication in medicine, or medical complication, is an unfavorable result of a disease, health condition, or treatment. Complications may adversely...

with impaired fasting glucose are at an increased risk of vascular complications of diabetes, though to a lesser extent. The risks are cumulative, with...

glucosuria, diabetes is confirmed by measuring fasting or random plasma glucose and glycated hemoglobin(HbA1c). Blood is filtered by millions of nephrons...

non-enzymatic process responsible for many (e.g. micro and macrovascular) complications in diabetes mellitus and is implicated in some diseases and in aging. Glycation...

is a measure of the concentration of active particles in a solution, so the name of the syndrome simply refers to the high concentration of glucose in the...

They are also believed to play a causative role in the vascular complications of diabetes mellitus. AGEs arise under certain pathologic conditions, such...

affecting the feet of people living with diabetes. Diabetic foot conditions can be acute or chronic complications of diabetes. Presence of several characteristic...

markers of kidney injury. These are also risk factors for kidney disease progression and for cardiovascular disease. Diabetes has several complications of which...

may change the timing or completeness of insulin action. It is a common, minor, chronic complication of diabetes mellitus. Typical injection site hypertrophy...

father, Lionel, died from complications of diabetes when Puka was 11. His mother, Penina, belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nacua...

can be a predictor for other diabetes-related complications and was one of the earliest known complications of diabetes, first documented in 1974. In...

redness, swelling, pain, warmth, tachycardia, or tachypnea. Complications can include infection of the bone, tissue death, amputation, or sepsis. They are...

diabetes. Joslin has the world's largest team of board-certified physicians treating diabetes and its complications, as well as the largest staff of Certified...

pathology grouped together as complications of diabetes. Glucose levels are usually lowest in the morning, before the first meal of the day, and rise after...

to walk and rely on a wheelchair for mobility. Zeng died from complications of diabetes on 13 February 1982 in Yuanjiang while in hospital care, where...

Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes generally...