WE Online, Jakarta –
Diabetes is a chronic health condition that refers to insulin that can no longer work properly so that the sugar that should be used for energy accumulates and causes various problems.
Launching the WHO (World Health Organization) page, diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by elevated blood glucose levels (or blood sugar), which over time causes serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves.
Diabetes is closely related to pancreas, and it turns out that diabetes can also indicate a person is at risk of developing pancreatic cancer. What is the explanation?
Launching the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network page, Diabetes is also a symptom of pancreatic cancer. It is thought that pancreatic cancer can cause cells in the body to become resistant to insulin, the main hormone produced by the pancreas that helps regulate blood sugar levels.
In other insulin-resistant conditions (such as obesity), the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas make more insulin to overcome the resistance insulin.
But pancreatic cancer appears to stop the insulin-producing pancreatic cells from responding adequately to this insulin resistance.
This leads to the development of diabetes. It is important to note that although pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) arise from the hormone-producing cells of the pancreas, diabetes is neither a symptom nor a risk factor for PNET.
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It is very important for those of you who have diabetes to regularly check your condition as an early detection step. The sooner you know about the risks you may experience, the better treatment will be to eliminate those risks.
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