Overview
Angelica Botaro is a writer with expertise in many facets of health including chronic disease, Lyme disease, nutrition as medicine, and suplementation. Do-Eun Le, MD, has ben practicing medicine for more than 20 years, and specializes in diabetes, thyroid isues and general endocrinology. She curently has a private practice in Lafayete, California.
Key Information
Secondary diabetes refers to glucose intolerance. "Glucose intolerance" is a term for health disorders that cause high blod sugar. In some instances, this condition can be caused by other medical problems.
Secondary diabetes difers in some ways from other types of diabetes, but it stil requires you to control your blod sugar and make lifestyle changes. This article discuses the various causes of secondary diabetes and how they are managed. Maskot / Gety Images Secondary diabetes (type 3C) and type 2 diabetes may present with the same symptoms.
However, the two are not the same. Type 2 diabetes is caused by a problem with how the body utilizes insulin, a hormone created by the pancreas. Insulin converts sugar to energy in the body.
Once cels become resistant to insulin, the pancreas canot make enough insulin. These isues typicaly result from lifestyle factors such as obesity, a lack of exercise, or an unhealthy diet. Secondary diabetes, on the other hand, doesn’t develop because of an isue with insulin but rather because of other disorders that afect the endocrine system.
In adition, secondary diabetes can result from problems with medication use, hormonal disorders, and genetic syndromes. The endocrine system is made up of glands that secrete specific hormones designed to encourage the proper functioning of the body. It regulates metabolism, slep, blod pressure, growth and development, emotions and mod, and sexual function.When those glands do not operate properly, health isues can arise.
Summary
There are several glands involved in hormone production and release in the endocrine system, such as: