TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Habits of people not exercising or not maintaining a balanced weight can be a potential for a person suffering from diabetes mellitus. However, many people are aware of how much potential a person has of the disease. Internal Medicine Specialist Primaya Hospital in West Bekasi, Khomimah, provides detailed information about a person’s potential for diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes mellitus is a disorder disease metabolic which is characterized by hyperglycemia or an increase in glucose levels in the blood which one of the causes is lack of insulin production and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a condition when the body’s cells cannot use blood sugar properly due to an interruption in the action of insulin or the disruption of the body’s response to insulin).
According to Khomimah, the disruption of insulin action and lack of insulin production can be caused by various risk factors for someone to have diabetes. These risk factors are divided into two categories.
First is people who are fat with a body mass index of more than 23 or people who are obese (excess body weight). An additional factor besides people with a body mass index of more than 23 is people who rarely exercise or don’t exercise. That person also has a history or heredity, especially parents who have diabetes. Then another factor is having hypertension or high blood pressure.
People with low levels of HDL (good cholesterol) or high levels of triglyceride (a type of fat in the blood) can increase people’s risk of diabetes mellitus. Then those who have a history of pre-diabetes are also prone to experiencing these health problems. Pre diabetes is a condition of blood glucose levels with values more than normal but not yet a category of diabetes. The category of pre-diabetes does not meet the criteria for diabetes blood glucose levels.
Another factor is that obese people have a history of diseases that occur due to cardiovascular and cardiovascular disorders. In addition, people with a body mass index of more than 23 have given birth to babies weighing more than 4 kg.
The second category, is a group of people with more than 45 years of age. “It should be noted that diabetes mellitus is not a virus or a bacterium. Diabetes mellitus is a non-communicable or degenerative disease, “Khomimah said in a press statement received by Tempo on July 17, 2020.
Degenerative disease is a medical condition that occurs when the function and structure of tissues or organs in the body deteriorate over time so that it can cause various diseases. Diabetes mellitus occurs due to impaired glucose metabolism or better known as diabetes. In the urine of sufferers of diabetes has a high sugar content.
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