Luis Eduardo De La Pena Restrepo*, Jonathan Gonzalez Walles, Pastor Leonardo Jurado Escobar, Oswaldo Pérez Cabra, Juan Felipe Villegas Lora, Sebastian Durango Conde, Angela Lopez Garcia and Helmy Yaimar Laguado Chacon
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that affects blood glucose levels causing high levels of it (hyperglycemia) associated with a dysfunction in the production and action of insulin that leads to a deficiency of is thus leading to a deficit in metabolism; There are different types of diabetes that are diabetes mellitus type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes, which are differentiated by different characteristics; This pathology presents different clinical manifestations and multiple chronic complications, which are divided into: a) macro vascular (equivalent to arteriosclerosis), b) micro vascular, which include retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy, and c) diabetic foot, which manifests itself in consequence of neuropathy or vascular affection of macroangiopathic origin, which can lead to affecting several systems of the organism such as the musculoskeletal system.
Published Date: 2022-04-11; Received Date: 2022-03-12
