Friday, December 12, 2008

Which category of disease conditions could exactly diabetes mellitus be included in? thank you.

Which category of disease conditions could exactly diabetes mellitus be included in? thank you.?
For example if thyrotoxicosis is an endocrine diseae type, what does diabetes belong to?
Diabetes - 7 Answers
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other diseases.
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Diabetes is an endocrine disorder. It affects your pancreas' secretion of insulin, and a diabtes specialist is called an endocrinologist.
3 :
diabetes is also an endocrine disease
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Diabetes is also considered an endocrine disease (glandular disease). That said, Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease as well. It is not a true metabolic disease like Type 2 diabetes. It's an important distinction.
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Diabetes can be considered both an endocrine disease and an autoimmune disease. The pancreas is part of the endocrine sytem. However, the body can attack itself, causing the destruction of the pancreas and insulin produving cells, making it autoimmune. So, it fits into both categories. EMT
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Diabetes Mellitus, as mentioned before, is both an endocrine disease and an autoimmune disease. It is an endocrine disease because it involves the pancreas, which is one of our endocrine glands. It is an autoimmune disease because it involves the immune system turning against the body, by developing antibodies that gradually destroy the body's capability to produce insulin. Hope this helps.
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It is also an endocrine disease. The reason for that is that it originates from an endocrine gland. There are 2 types of glands= endocrine and exocrine.

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