metabolic disorder
Chemical processing dysfunction
A metabolic disorder is a condition in which the body's chemical processes for converting food into energy malfunction.
These disorders typically involve enzyme deficiencies or hormone imbalances that disrupt normal metabolism: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder.
Many are inherited, affecting how the body processes proteins, fats, or carbohydrates.
- hypothyroidismInsufficient thyroid hormone production
- thyroid hormoneMetabolism-controlling endocrine secretion
- scurvyVitamin C deficiency disease
- Wilson's diseaseInherited copper metabolism failure
- enzymeProtein that hastens reactions
newborn screening · Tay-Sachs disease · mitochondria · Niemann-Pick disease · genetic mutation · insulin resistance · hemochromatosis · rickets · diabetes · insulin · liver · glucose · obesity · pancreas · chronic · symptoms · gout · treatment
- dysfunctionserectile dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, thyroid dysfunction, organ failure, heart failure
- disease causesetiology, causation, pathogens, genetics, infection
- Genetic Riskgenetic marker, genetic testing, genetic counseling, gene mutation, predisposition
metabolic disorderstructural damage
Harm to supporting elements
traumatic injury · physical trauma · infectious disease · tissue damage · organ damage