Types of Diabetes
Homeostasis & the Body
History & Discovery
Global Impact
Etiology and Mechanisms
100

This type of diabetes develops during pregnancy.

What is gestational diabetes?

100

Insulin helps regulate the level of this substance in the blood.

What is glucose (sugar)?

100

The Latin meaning of “mellitus.”

What is sweet or honeyed?

100

The region with the highest adult diabetes prevalence (about 10.9%). (name one)

What is the Middle East or North Africa?

100

The hormone whose deficiency or failure causes diabetes.

What is insulin?

200

This type of diabetes is caused when the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells.

What is Type 1 diabetes?

200

Homeostasis keeps this condition stable inside the body.

What is internal environment?

200

The typical outcome of diabetes before insulin’s discovery.

What is death?

200

The world region with the largest number of adults diagnosed with diabetes (about 138 million).

What is the Western Pacific?

200

The organ whose beta cells are destroyed or overworked in diabetes.  

What is the pancreas?

300

This is the most common form of diabetes, usually linked to lifestyle and insulin resistance.

What is Type 2 diabetes?

300

The pancreas releases this hormone to lower blood sugar levels.

What is insulin?

300

The insect used in the earliest methods for detecting diabetes.

What are ants?

300

More than 90–95% of diabetes patients belong to this type, and most of these patients are adults.

What is Type 2 diabetes?

300

The main factor behind insulin resistance in youth.

What is obesity?

400

In this type of diabetes, because of genetics or other diseases cause the pancreas to malfunction.

What is monogenic diabetes?

400

When homeostasis fails in diabetes, this feedback mechanism no longer works properly.

What is the negative feedback loop?

400

The scientists who discovered insulin in 1921.

(name one)

Who are Frederick Banting and Charles Best?

400

The projected number of adults expected to have diabetes by 2035.

What is 592 million?

400

The term for cells not responding properly to insulin.

What is insulin resistance?

500

Type 1 diabetes is considered this kind of disorder because the immune system attacks the body’s own cells.

What is an autoimmune disorder?

500

Diabetes shows how the failure of homeostasis in one system can affect these other two systems (name one).

What are the circulatory and urinary systems?

500

The first person successfully treated with insulin.

Who is Leonard Thompson?

500

The percentage of diabetes cases occurring in low- and middle-income countries.

What is around 80%?

500

The process that fails in diabetes, leading to unregulated blood glucose levels.

What is homeostasis of glucose?