HOW DIABETES HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO 50% DEATH IN THE WORLD

What is diabetes? Diabetes as the name implies is a disease cause by either a deficiency of the digestive hormone called insulin or the inability of the body cells to use available insulin.
What is insulin?insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas,which regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in the cells.
This disease, diabetes has contributed heavily to mortality rate in the world. Although diabetes has no cure, but there are some substainable drugs victims of the disease can take to prolong their life span.
KINDS OF DIABETES
1.Diabetes insipidus:a condition of polyuria and polydipsia due to the deficiency of anti diuretic hormone (ADH) .This kind of diabetes is less common in Africa

1. Juvenile diabetes:This is also called insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM),this kind of diabetes is common to children and young adults. This kind of diabetes is caused by deficiency of insulin in the body. This kind of diabetes is not common in this our 21st century because insulin can be injected in the body.
2. Maturity onseth diabetes also called non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus(NIDDM).
   This is the kind of diabetes that is common,in this kind of diabetes,there is insulin in the body,but the body cannot make use of the available insulin.This kind of diabetes is common to old people,and it contribute to 40%death in the world.
   CAUSES OF DIABETES

HOW DIABETES HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO 50% DEATH IN THE WORLD

1. Lifestyle:the kind of life an individual lives when he is young is one of the determine factors of diabetes most of them take up to 5 bottles of beer per day.
2. Heredity:this is another cause of diabetes. We can inherit it from our forefathers.
3. Wrong medication: we need to be very careful on the kind of drugs we take. Wrong medication is one of the major causes of diabetes because,some drugs are harmful to the body,damaging the pancreas and from there we start having problem in the digestion of starch.