Results from inability to make insulin due to a combination of genetics or inheritance and environmentalstressors. Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is associated with insulin's lack of availability, its action on the receptor sites, and/or its function with the glycolytic pathway. Also called insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes.
Insulin dependent (Type I) diabetes is less common than Type II. This disease occurs when the pancreas can’t make insulin, or at least not enough. Often this form of diabetes begins in childhood or the young adult years, but people of any age can get it. Insulin shots are required daily.
Type 1 Diabetes typically surfaces in childhood. It is thought to be caused partly by genetics. Symptoms include excessive thirst, increased urination, weight loss (despite increased appetite), nausea, vomiting, fatigue and ammenorea. People who have Type I Diabetes are unable to produce insulin. As a result, they often must take insulin injections.
A lifelong condition in which the pancreas stops making insulin. Without insulin, the body is unable to use glucose (sugar) for energy. To treat the disease, a person must inject insulin, follow a diet plan, exercise daily and test blood sugar several times a day. Type I diabetes usually begins before age 30.
severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
diabetes that usually occurs in childhood or early adulthood and always requires insulin for control since the pancreas has stopped making insulin.
A chronic condition in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin because the beta cells have been destroyed. The body is then not able to use glucose for energy, since insulin is required for cellular uptake of glucose.
An autoimmune disease in which the body does not produce any insulin to control an individual's blood sugar, most often occurring in children and young adults. People with type I diabetes must take daily insulin injections to stay alive.
The form of diabetes that usually begins in a person younger than 30. In this condition, the body stops making insulin.
A form of diabetes in which so little insulin is produced that supplemental insulin must be given for the animal to live. Also called insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
