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Dr Bryant Diabetes Diabetes is a common disorder of metabolism in which the amount of glucose or sugar in the blood is too high, suffocating the body's cells, and damaging the sufferer's health. The high sugar level in the blood is a condition known as hyperglycemia. Diabetes develops either because the body's pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin hormones to metabolise glucose, or because the insulin fails to work properly. When blood glucose rises above a certain level, it leaks into the urine. The condition, sometimes hereditary, affects roughly 3% cent of men and 2% cent of women in the world, half of which may not have been diagnosed with the condition. Though there is no cure for diabetes, proper insulin intakes and other cures together with a correct diet enable most diabetics to live virtually normal lives with few side effects, although their mortality rate is higher. A common symptom of diabetes...

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