Diabetes and Cholesterol Metabolism

Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition which impairs the body’s ability to process the blood glucose otherwise known as blood sugar. The pathogenesis in the development of diabetes depends on the fact that the β-islet cells of pancreas get impaired, which causes lack of control of blood glucose. The development of diabetes becomes additional inevitable if the failure of β-islet cells of the pancreas is accompanied by insulin resistance. Diabetes is a metabolic condition where the body produce less amount of insulin. There are 3 types of diabetes seen in today’s life i.e. Type1 and Type2 diabetes both are caused by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors.  And the last one is gestational diabetes which occurs normally in women during pregnancy for which the body become less sensitive to insulin. Gestational diabetes can occur in some women and it usually resolves after giving birth to a child.