Sikander Ali and Manam Walait
Institute of Industrial Biotechnology (IIB), GC University Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract
The rate of Diabetes mellitus is increasing all over the world very rapidly that only a few individual can survive from it. Although it is not a viral disease,but still it is most known non-infectious disease spread all around. Diabetes mellitus type 2 is associated with weight loss, obesity, blindness, renal failure, metabolic syndromes and many other diseases. In Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), different factors like environmental and genetic interacts and includes abnormal beta-cells secretion due to insulin resistance. Furthermore, in patients with …show more content…
In addition to it, hypertension and elevated cholesterol also result in this syndrome. Moreover, obesity has been found to contribute to approximately 55% cases to type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM ) (Maitra et al., 2005). There may be other symptoms are also present depending on disease viability.
General Feature of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2DM) Type 2 Diabetes mellitus can be described in term of general features. These general features consists of basics information about type 2 diabetes mellitus. These characteristics are disease onset, its symptoms, epidemiology, genetic suspectiability, its causes and insulin concentration in plasma. Further it consists of disease complication and its treatments.The general feature of diabetes mellitus covers the criteria given in the table below.
Features Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus References
Onset of disease Between the age of 45 to 64 normally (Patlak et al.,2002; Ye et al., 2010)
Onset of symptoms Gradually develops (Azevedo et al.,2012)
Epidemiology Widely spread (Zimmet et