Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease. It is characterized by high levels of sugar in the blood. Type 2 diabetes is also called type 2 diabetes mellitus and adult-onset diabetes. That's because it used to start almost always in the middle- and late adulthood. However, more and more children and teens are developing this condition. Type 2 diabetes is much more common than type 1 diabetes and is really a different disease. But it shares with type 1 diabetes high blood sugar levels, and the complications of high blood sugar.
Diabetes is a lifelong illness. However, people with type 2 diabetes can sometimes restore their blood sugar levels to normal just by eating a healthy diet, regularly exercising, and losing weight.
One diagnosis code must be clearly mentioned in the document in the medical record as being directly related to the other. ICD-10 Code Z79.4, Long-term (current) use of insulin should be assigned to indicate that the patient uses insulin for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Category E11* codes).
• E11.00: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hyperosmolarity without nonketotic hyperglycemic-hyperosmolar coma (NKHHC)
• E11.01: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hyperosmolarity with coma
• E11.21: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic nephropathy
• E11.22: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic chronic kidney disease
• E11.29: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other diabetic kidney complication
• E11.36: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic cataract
• E11.39: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other diabetic ophthalmic complication
• E11.40: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic neuropathy, unspecified
• E11.41: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic mononeuropathy
• E11.42: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic polyneuropathy
• E11.43: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic autonomic (poly) neuropathy
• E11.44: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic amyotrophy
• E11.49: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other diabetic neurological complication
• E11.51: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic peripheral angiopathy without gangrene
• E11.52: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic peripheral angiopathy with gangrene
• E11.59: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other circulatory complications
• E11.65: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hyperglycemia
• E11.69: Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other specified complication
Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) is a complication of diabetes mellitus (predominantly type 2) in which high blood sugars cause severe dehydration, increases in osmolarity (relative concentration of solute), and a high risk of complications, coma, and death. It is diagnosed with blood tests. It is related to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), another complication of diabetes more often (but not exclusively) encountered in people with type 1 diabetes; they are differentiated with measurement of ketone bodies, organic molecules that are the underlying driver for DKA but are usually not detectable in HHS.
MeSH Codes: D006944, D048909, D048909, D048909, D048909, D048909, D048909, D048909, D048909, D048909
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