The word “diabetes” serves as an umbrella term covering conditions that share a common symptom—elevated blood sugar—but diverge significantly in their underlying mechanisms, progression patterns, and ...

A chronic, irreversible and life-long condition, Diabetes affects millions of people worldwide - for those who have this condition, it is either Type 1, or Type 2 diabetes. While both of them cause ...

Perhaps the first thing to know about diabetes is that it isn't just one disease. It's actually a group of diseases characterized by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. It may be that the ...

Glucose, also commonly called blood sugar, is the main source of energy for the body. Diabetes is a disease where your blood sugar is too high. Your pancreas makes the hormone insulin, which helps ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the body mistakenly attacks itself as the immune system destroys the pancreas's insulin ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a critical hormone that regulates blood sugar in the body. Scientists at Scripps ...

While November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, EvergreenHealth physician Andrew Thurman, MD, sees importance in understanding symptoms of the disease beyond November. Originally from San Diego, ...

November is National Diabetes Month. November is National Diabetes Month, but for the more than a million children and adults in the U.S. living with Type 1 diabetes, every day and night is a constant ...

For the first time, researchers have revealed that during the development of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), when insulin-producing cells in the pancreas are under attack from T lymphocytes, the cells lining ...

In Jordan, diabetes affects about one in five adults, which is more than 1 million people in total. This means that many families are affected by this condition and detecting this condition early on ...

A type 1 diabetic dad is 1.8 times more likely to pass the condition on to his kids than a type 1 diabetic mom, who, research suggests, confers long-term protection against it. The findings open the ...

Raising a child with diabetes is not an easy task for parents. Popularly known as juvenile diabetes or childhood-onset diabetes, it is a condition where the body produces little to no insulin, a ...