Types, causes, effect and common treatment of Diabetic mellitus (DM), a long term endocrine metabolic disorder: A Review

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a long term endocrine metabolic disorder. This is due to disturbances in metabolism of carbohydrate, fat, protein and characterized by hyperglycemia. It is a multi-factorial disease. Presently a combination of an insulin secretagogue and an insulin sensitizer treatment is used to cure this disease. In this article we would like to describe the types, effect and some common anti diabetic drugs which are commonly used for the treatment of diabetic mellitus.