Diabetes (disambiguation)

Diabetes is a term used for some medical conditions, which have excessive urination as a prominent symptom. This page serves to help you find the article you want.

•  Diabetes insipidus: Disease caused by a deficiency in the secretion of vasopressin, or by the failure of the kidney to respond to vasopressin. ^[e]

Diabetes mellitus describes the condition in which the excessive urination is caused by high blood levels of glucose (a sugar).

There are three main articles about diabetes mellitus

•  Diabetes mellitus: Relative or absolute lack of insulin leading to uncontrolled carbohydrate metabolism. ^[e]
•  Diabetes mellitus type 1: Insulin dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes. ^[e]
•  Diabetes mellitus type 2: Medical condition characterised by glucose intolerance and hyperglycemia ^[e]
•  Gestational diabetes: Glucose intolerance which occurs in pregnancy, usually noticed between the 24th and 28th weeks of expectancy. ^[e]

The terms insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus are no longer used to classify diabetes mellitus because people with any type of diabetes mellitus may need treatment with insulin.