The diabetes mellitus (DM) (”honey-sweet flow”, Greek ????????, from ancient Greek ????????, “pass”, “flow through” and Latin mellitus “honeyed”) or the diabetes is the term for a group of metabolic diseases and describes their initial main symptom: excretion of sugar in the urine. In ancient times, the diagnosis was made by a taste of the urine sample, because the urine of people with diabetes has increased in blood sugar by sugar on a sweet taste.
It is now in the technical language of the collective term for various (heterogeneous) disorders of metabolism, which Leitbefund hyperglycaemia the blood (hyperglycaemia) is. Cause is either a lack of insulin, insulin resistance (insulin resistance) or both. Depending on the cause, there are different types of diabetes, which are based unifying similarities.
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