Month: December 2019

Diabetes mellitus is a disease that is manifested by high blood sugar levels due to insufficient insulin exposure. Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas. In diabetes mellitus, it is either completely absent (type I diabetes, or insulin-dependent diabetes), or the

Diet for diabetes is not only to exclude from food, sugar, sweets and sweet dishes. Each patient should have an individually composed diet with a certain amount of sugar, fat, protein and caloric content, so that

In practice, in the vast majority of cases, primary hypothyroidism occurs. . It is established that the most frequent cause of its development is autoimmune thyroiditis. However, hypothyroidism may develop after surgery on the thyroid gland (postoperative hypothyroidism),

The clinical manifestations of hypothyroidism consist of the following main syndromes :  I. Exchange hypothermic syndrome. Typical for hypothyroidism is a constant feeling of coldness, a decrease in body temperature, hyperlipoproteinemia (increased cholesterol and triglyceride levels), a moderate

It has long been noted that the clinical manifestations and course of hypothyroidism vary significantly in individuals of different ages. In young and middle-aged patients, hypothyroidism usually occurs in a classical form with characteristic subjective and

Difficulties in recognizing hypothyroidism are amplified many times when the disease proceeds in unusual (non-classical) forms. 1.Hypertension in hypothyroidism. Hypertension is detected in 10-30% of patients with hypothyroidism. Its genesis is explained by vessel sensitization to endogenous

The most severe (but fortunately, very rare) complication of hypothyroidism is hypothyroid or myxedematous coma . The basis of its pathogenesis is inhibition of the respiratory center, a progressive decrease in cardiac output, tissue hypoxia and a decrease in