Diabetes

Intro

Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or can’t properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy. Diabetes is diagnosed on the basis of too- high levels of glucose in the blood. If you have diabetes, your blood glucose levels rise because of the food you eat. Food has little effect on blood glucose in people without diabetes.
The glucose tolerance test GTT is helpful in identifying diabetes and other diseases of the liver and disorders of carbohydrate metabolism.
The level of glucose in the blood is very important as it is utilised by all tissues, especially the brain, which at a resting state uses approximately 65% of all available glucose. In normal individuals blood glucose levels are usually found inside a range of 3.5-5.5mmol/L.
Glucose concentrations are tightly controlled by various mechanisms; depending on whether the body is fasting or is in the immediate post-absorptive state. In the immed...