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| '''Diabetes''' is one of a number of ]s which usually involve excessive ] ('']'') when untreated. In modern medical and colloquial usage, the single word "diabetes" nearly always means one of the forms of "sugar diabetes", ]. All other kinds of diabetes are far less common. | |||
| ] involves ] imbalances, or defects in metabolism, leading to high concentrations of ] in the ]. It has three common forms, although includes many<!--many?--> other types of non-transient ]: | |||
| *Type 1 diabetes was formerly called juvenile or ]-dependent diabetes (IDDM). | |||
| *Type 2 diabetes was formerly called adult-onset, obesity-related, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM). | |||
| *] is diabetes mellitus occurring during ]. | |||
| The other major but far less common diabetes is "water diabetes", ''']''' (DI). In diabetes insipidus, the kidneys are incapable of concentrating ]. This leads to greatly increased urine production, dehydration and thirst. | |||
| There are several other types of diabetes <!-- are there??-->, all much more rare than diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus. | |||
| ''Mellitus'' and ''insipidus'' refer to the tastes of the urine (''sweet'' and ''tasteless'', respectively) and date back to the days of urine tasting (]). | |||
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