Diabetes definitions beginning with N

See diabetic kidney disease.
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Kidney damage when they fail to function. If diabetes damages kidney filters, they become leaky, allowing protein to spill from the blood to urine. They also become less able to remove waste products. Nephropathy occurs in five stages leading to end stage kidney failure leading to dialysis or kidney transplantation. A specialist concerned with the science of medical diseases of the kidneys is referred as a nephrologist. As a result of diabetes, the kidneys overwork attempting to filter out through the glomeruli capillaries excess glucose. Waste substances not needed by the body are filtered out through the glomeruli into the urine and passed on to the bladder. Eventually the kidneys becomes damaged with scarring and capillary wall build-up resulting in renal failure. (Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus; Vasopressin-Resistant Diabetes.) Renal failure symptoms and signs are weakness, fatigue, a metallic taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, generalized twitching, and if untreated loss consciousness, seizures, and death.
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(NIDDM.) Type II diabetes; adult or maturity onset diabetes; an often mild form of diabetes mellitus of gradual onset, usually in obese individuals over age 35. A milder form of diabetes, circulating endogenous (contained within the body) insulin is sufficient to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis but is often either subnormal or relatively inadequate because of tissue insensitivity and responds well to dietary regulation and/or oral hypoglycemic agent, but diabetic complications and degenerative changes can develop.
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Browse Related Terms: Diabetic Shock, GrowthOnset Diabetes, Insulin-Dependent Diabetes, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Type I Diabetes, Type II Diabetes

(NKHC, Hyperglycemic Coma) This is a gradual loss of consciousness, most often in an older person whose diabetes usually does not require insulin injections. NKHC is seen generally in older persons with Type II diabetes who are institutionalized, or mentally impaired due to a prior cerebrovascular accident that may mask the signs and symptoms of NKHC including focal neurologic abnormalities, transient hemiparesis, hemisenory deficits, aphasia, involuntary muscle contractions, hallucinations, delirium and coma.
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Browse Related Terms: Acute Complications, Chronic Hyperglycemia, coma, Diabetic Coma, Hyperglycemic Episode or Reation, Hypoglycemic Coma

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