Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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diabetes: a disease characterized by excessive urination and increased thirst. Diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes) is caused by insufficient insulin production or cells? lack of responsiveness to insulin, resulting in hyperglycemia (high blood glucose). There are two primary types of diabetes mellitus. Type 1 (also called juvenile-onset or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [IDDM]) is caused by autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, and usually requires daily insulin injections. Type 2 (also called adult-onset, insulin-resistant, or non?insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [NIDDM]) is characterized by progressive loss of insulin sensitivity and increasing blood glucose levels, and commonly occurs in overweight people. Blood glucose abnormalities that develop in people with HIV resemble type 2 diabetes. Diabetes insipidus is an uncommon, unrelated condition typically due to hormonal dysregulation or kidney dysfunction. See also insulin resistance.