{"id":29436,"date":"2023-06-07T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/quest-ce-que-le-diabete\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:29:36","slug":"what-is-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/what-is-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"What is diabetes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Diabetes is a chronic disease that cannot be cured but can be controlled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually, blood sugar is maintained at normal values due primarily to the action of insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas.<br>It acts like a key, allowing the sugar in the blood to enter the body\u2019s cells to be used as a source of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Schema-type-2-diabetes-sugar-cell-1024x625.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Schema-type-2-diabetes-sugar-cell-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Schema-type-2-diabetes-sugar-cell-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Schema-type-2-diabetes-sugar-cell-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Schema-type-2-diabetes-sugar-cell.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In type 2 diabetes, two phenomena are generally at work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resistance of the body to the action of insulin;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A decrease or absence of insulin production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, sugar cannot enter cells and accumulates in the blood, resulting in hyperglycemia, an increase in blood glucose above normal values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the long term, hyperglycemia can lead to the development of certain complications, including the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and blood vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are different types of diabetes: prediabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, pregnancy diabetes and other types of diabetes that are rarer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research and writing:<\/strong>&nbsp;Diabetes Qu\u00e9bec team of health care professionals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 Diabetes Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes is a chronic disease that cannot be cured but can be controlled. Usually, blood sugar is maintained at normal values due primarily to the action of insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas.It acts like a key, allowing the sugar in the blood to enter the body\u2019s cells to be used as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29333,"parent":24354,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"11721,11781,15798,11773,7588,10002","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29436","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31163,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29436\/revisions\/31163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}