Genetic test to determine predisposition to inherited diabetes, ways to prevent and establish effective therapy.
Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period. The disease is the 8th leading cause of death worldwide. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough insulin (primary hormone regulating blood glucose uptake in most body cells, especially liver, adipose tissue and muscles), or the cells of the body not responding properly to the insulin produced.
Symptoms and conditions associated with diabetes are:
- Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- Insulin-independent diabetes mellitus
- Neonatal diabetes mellitus
- Familial hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia
- Familial partial lipodystrophy
- Pancreatic agenesis and congenital heart defects
- Renal cysts, ocular and auditory abnormalities associated with glucose inotolerance
- Fanconi anemia
- Mitchell-Riley syndrome
- Wolfram syndrome
- Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome
- MELAS syndrome