Self-Management and Personality Features as Measures of Diabetes Patients' Quality of Life

It is observed globally that the number of Diabetes cases are increasing in every country which would have serious consequences in the society, if it is not properly checked and handled by the researchers and physicians it would be too late for the health benefit of mankind. India is a country which has been endorsed by WHO that it is going to become second largest affected country in the world. So, pharmaceuticals companies in India and abroad are carrying out researches in search of allopathic and ayurvedic medicines for the purpose of treating and curing diabetes patients. By definition diabetes is an enduring condition caused by inadequate amount of release of insulin or inadequate production of insulin in the body or due to obstruction created in the path of insulin secretion that results in lessening amount of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism. Medical literature on diabetes has categorized two types of diabetes that is, Type -1 or insulin dependent; in which an individual is totally depend on insulin which is given to a patient through external sources, whereas Type-2 or non-insulin dependent; in which an individual is treated through medicines or in severe cases they are also given insulin along with medicines.