A chronic disorder of carbohydrate metabolism which results in hyperglycemia and glycosuria is?

(DM) DIABETIS MELLITUS The pancreas fails to produce insulin, therefore the person has high blood sugar (glycosuria). The kidney will attempt to lover the high blood sugar level by excreting excess sugar in the urine. ANSWER The above answer has true and false information. Diabetes mellitus is the chronic disorder you ask of. However, glycosuria is any glucose in the urine (which is never normal). Hyperglycemia is high blood sugar. (-emia = blood..... -uria = urine.) The glucose is not put in the urine by a healthy kidney trying to rid the blood of excess sugar, it is put in there by a damaged kidney. The damage will have been caused by chronic hyperglycemia, causing the glomerular capsule to basically rupture, allowing large molecules (like glucose and protein... protienuria) to spill into the urine. The pancreas may be failing to produce insulin, but it may also not be producing enough. Also, the body may not be able to use insulin to allow glucose to enter the cells for metabolism.