Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose (blood sugar), is too high. having too much glucose in your blood can cause a lot of health problems such as:
- heart disease
- stroke
- kidney disease
- eye problems
- dental disease
- nerve damage
- foot problems
There are different types of diabetes:
-Tip 1 diabetes: this type can not be cured but It can be managed by following diet and using medications.
-Tip 2 diabetes: this type of diabetes occurs most often in middleaged and older people. Type 2 is the most common type of diabetes and it can be cured by surgical operation called Metabolic surgery.
There are some other diabetes types such as Gestational and Monogenic diabetes but they are less common than the types mentioned above.