# Diabetes mellitus

Condition · id `core:diabetes-mellitus` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `73130c34862e2d06` (public)

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Browse, organ or system: Metabolism  
Browse, condition area: Diabetes and metabolic disease  

## In plain language

A group of disorders marked by high blood sugar and by the body having trouble handling glucose.

## Technical summary

MeSH concept M0006148, the preferred concept of descriptor D003920, describes diabetes mellitus as a varied group of disorders whose shared features are high blood glucose (hyperglycemia) and glucose intolerance. MeSH's indexing note calls the heading general or unspecified and says to prefer specifics, so specific types are not recorded here. This identity states no diagnostic threshold, treatment or risk.

## Connected pages

- Has subtype: Type 2 diabetes (`cardio:type-2-diabetes`)

## Provenance

Content hash: d337d0175a818dc95976e080f82f256b12efbc72144e83d610b1747a39628036
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14