糖尿病是一个常见病,1980年在广州地区进行调查发现其患病率为5.53‰。本病的主要危害在于引起急性代谢紊乱如糖尿病酮症酸中毒、高渗性非酮症糖尿病昏迷;以及由大血管病变、微血管病变、神经病变、眼病变等所致的慢性器官损害。为了防止糖尿病急性和慢性并发症的发生和发展,必须使机体代谢回复正常,其中首先要使血糖浓度经常保持在生理或 Diabetes is a common disease. A survey in Guangzhou in 1980 found that the prevalence was 5.53 ‰. The main hazards of this disease is caused by acute metabolic disorders such as diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar nonketotic diabetic coma; and chronic organ damage caused by macrovascular disease, microangiopathy, neuropathy, eye disease and the like. In order to prevent the occurrence and development of acute and chronic diabetic complications, it is necessary to return the body to normal metabolism, in which the blood glucose concentration should first be kept at physiological or