Diabetes-related blood sugar imbalance can weaken your immune system, making you prone to infections. Frequent respiratory infections like pneumonia might also signal uncontrolled diabetes.

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar. Your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t effectively use the insulin it makes. The hormone insulin moves ...

Symptoms of diabetes mellitus plus casual plasma glucose concentrations ≥200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) Casual is defined as any time of day without regard to time since last meal. The classic symptoms ...

A type of non-insulin-requiring diabetes in young people, inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, is clearly different from the classic acute ... to divide diabetes mellitus into five distinct ...