What Is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose levels are higher than normal. When you eat food, most of it is turned into glucose, or simple sugar. Your body uses this simple sugar for energy. The pancreas makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of your body. If your body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use its own insulin as well as it should, you have «Diabetes».
Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
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