Diabetes, Nutrition & Metabolic Diseases

Diabetes, Nutrition & Metabolic Diseases is the medical branch that deals with the diagnostics and treatment of diseases caused by inadequate nutrition and metabolic disorders.

The evaluation and accuracy of the disease stage requires biochemical analyses (Biochemistry, Hormonal Determinations & Fertility) and paraclinic investigations (Radiology, Echography).

Overfeeding causes cardiovascular diseases, certain types of cancer, sugar diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome (proteins/lipids/glucide excess, vitamin intoxication (vitamin A excess) or iron overload (mineral excess). On the other hand, food deficit might leed to protein-energy malnutrition (lack of proteins/lipids/glucide), avitaminosis (beriberi, rickets, scorbutus, pellagra, immune deficites), endemic goiter, osteoporosis, zinc deficit (lack of minerals).