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What Metabolic Abnormality Underlies Diabetes Symptoms?
This is the metabolic abnormality that underlies the characteristic symptoms of diabetes mellitus:
- A.- A failure of the kidney tubules to reabsorb glucose from the urine
- B.- A failure of the villi of the intestine to absorb glucose from food
- C.- The body can't switch from glucose metabolism to fat metabolism between meals
- D.-The body's cells can't retain glucose absorbed from the blood
- E.- The body's cells can't absorb enough glucose from the blood
Diabetic Symptoms — Hair Loss?
I have diabetes (newly diagnosed, but apparently I have had it fo a while and didn't know it according to my doctor) and my hair keeps falling out near the crown and in the back, causing thin spots. Someone told me that this can be a symptomatic cause from having diabetes. Is this true and if so; why?
