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Diabetes is one of a number of diseases which usually involve excessive urination (polyuria) when untreated. In modern medical and colloquial usage, the single word "diabetes" nearly always means one of the forms of "sugar diabetes", diabetes mellitus. All other kinds of diabetes are far less common.
Diabetes mellitus involves hormone imbalances, or defects in metabolism, leading to high concentrations of glucose in the blood. It has three common forms, although includes many other types of non-transient hyperglycemia:
- Type 1 diabetes was formerly called juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM).
- Type 2 diabetes was formerly called adult-onset, obesity-related, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM).
- Gestational diabetes is diabetes mellitus occurring during pregnancy.
The other major but far less common diabetes is "water diabetes", diabetes insipidus (DI). In diabetes insipidus, the kidneys are incapable of concentrating urine. This leads to greatly increased urine production, dehydration and thirst.
There are several other types of diabetes , 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 (gustatory urinalysis).
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