Labette Health’s Diabetes & Endocrinology Clinic provides individualized medical care with thorough management of blood glucose, the latest diagnostic services, and multidisciplinary services for management of diabetes and its complications. Our providers focus on rigorous glucose, lipid and blood pressure management to ensure that our patients meet all therapeutic targets or screening tests recommended by national organizations.
Types of diabetes
- Gestational diabetes. This type of diabetes happens during pregnancy.
- Prediabetes. Blood sugar levels are higher than normal and could progress to type 2 diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes. A condition that happens when the pancreas does not make enough insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels.
- Type 2 diabetes. A disease that happens when the body does not use insulin correctly.
- Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). LADA is a slow-progressing form of autoimmune diabetes. Like the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, LADA occurs because your pancreas stops producing adequate insulin, most likely from some “insult” that slowly damages the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. But unlike type 1 diabetes, with LADA, you often won’t need insulin for several months up to years after you’ve been diagnosed.
Endocrine disorders
Endocrine disorders affect the body’s endocrine system, which uses glands throughout the body to produce and release hormones. Hormones are chemical messengers that travel from your endocrine glands to other parts of the body. They help control many bodily functions, including blood pressure, growth and development, metabolism, sexual function, and mood.
The most common endocrine disorders include:
- Adrenal gland under-function and over-function.
- Diabetes and prediabetes.
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
- Osteoporosis.
- Pituitary gland disorders.
- Pituitary tumors.
- Thyroid cancer and nodules.
- Thyroid under-function and over-function.
- Thyroid eye disease/Graves’ disease.