Diabetis Causes
Diabetes-Causes
Diabetes mellitus is a clinical syndrome characterized by hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) due to absolute or (partial) relative deficiency of insulin. Lack of insulin affects the metabolism of carbohydrate, protein, fat, water and electrolytes. Long-standing metabolic disturbance causes permanent and irreversible functional and structural changes in the cells of the body which results in death.
Heredity
The heredity plays a vital roll and the heredity pattern of diabetes are very complex and the genetic tendency shows clearly that it is not directly handed on to all the children of an affected generation, although the tendency towards developing it is passed on. In identical twins when one twin develops diabetes, about 70 percent of the other twins will also develop it. But in non-identical twins this happens with less than ten percent. In children with both diabetic mothers and fathers, only one in four subsequently develops diabetes- those with only one diabetic parent develop the disorder at a slightly greater rate than the normal population.
