Food that we consume now will take its toll in the future. Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by increased levels of sugar blood (hyperglycaemia) chronicles that can affect many people in all walks of society. Problems with diabetes mellitus, both aspects of individual and public health aspects, continues to grow …show more content…
The increase in glucose in the blood level is known as hyperglycaemia. Hyperglycaemia happened due to the interference of insulin secretion and/or insulin functionality in the body that leads to the abnormality of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism.
Generally there are two types of diabetes, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes or also known diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes is a diabetes that is dependent to insulin while type 2 diabetes is not dependent on insulin. The differences of both diabetes are characterized in TABLE 1. Majority of patient suffering from type 2 diabetes in develop country is much higher than those who has type 1 diabetes (______).
Since late 90s till 2012, the rate of people diagnosed with diabetes type 2 in New Zealand has increase from the past few years. From the FIGURE 1, the rising of diagnosed patient with type 2 diabetes is slowly happening if compared to other countries in the world such as _____.
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The typical complained associated with having diabetes mellitus in the form of having polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia and unexplained weight loss in the patient. For this setting the benchmark for glucose concentration will be > 200mg/dl. Polyuria is a condition when the volume of urine secretion is abnormal. A volume more than 2.5liter a day for an adult is considered as not normal. Polydipsia on the other hand can be defined as excessive thirst can happened suddenly. With the increase level of polydipsia, polyuria will also