Diabetes Mellitus or Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism leading to an increase in blood glucose levels. This increased sugar levels can eventually lead to many complications such as Diabetic Neuropathy, Retinopathy and Nephropathy which affects the nerves, eyes and kidneys respectively. Diabetes may also precipitate many other diseases and co-morbidities including thyroid disease and some forms of cancer (Diabetes, UK, 2019). Diabetes can affect people of all ages and different races. Diabetes can be classified into primary diabetes, gestational diabetes and secondary diabetes. Primary diabetes includes the well-known Type I and Type II diabetes as well as Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood (LADA) and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy and secondary causes of diabetes include pancreatic insufficiency (Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus, 2004). Type I diabetes, MODY and LADA are genetically inhe...
Class of 2022 - Graduate Entry Medical Programme, University of Ghana, Legon