Diabetes and Endocrinology

Type 1 diabetes

An autoimmune disease that occurs when T cells attack and destroy most of the beta cells in the pancreas that are require to produce insulin, so that the pancreas makes insufficient insulin (or no insulin). Without the capacity to make suitable amount of insulin, the body is incapable to metabolize blood glucose (sugar), to use it efficiently for energy and toxic acids (called keto acids) increase in the body. There is a genetic tendency to Type 1 diabetes. The disease inclines to occur in childhood, adolescence or early adulthood (before age 30) but it might have its medical attack at any age. The symptoms of type 1 diabetes characteristically appear unexpectedly, even though the damage to the beta cells may be initiated very earlier and progress slowly and silently.
  •  Immune-mediated diabetes
  •  Idiopathic diabetes
  •  Causes & Symptoms
  •  Risk Factors