Diabetes

Diabetes

Diabetes is the term common to two different clinical entities called Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus but in common language, owing to the widespread prevalence of the disease, the term is generally used to refer to Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Mellitus is a lifestyle disease which is characterised by prolonged states of hyperglycemia or in simple terms high blood sugar level due to either decreased insulin secretion or defective insulin action at the receptor level resulting in major systemic complications. It is so common these days that whenever somebody is provided coffee, their diabetic status is enquired about.