ABSTRACT
Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by abnormal high blood sugar levels that result from defects in the body’s ability to produce and/or use insulin. The disease was discovered in 1000 BC by an Indian physician, Susruta, but was named “diabetes” in 100 BC by a Greek physician, Aretaeus, after the Greek word “dia-bainein,” which means “to siphon.”
