About 90%-95% of all people with diabetes have this type. With type 2, your pancreas makes someinsulin— the hormone that helps your cells turn glucose (a type of sugar) from the food you eat into energy. In some people, your cells don't respond to this hormone as they should (a ...
Type 2diabetesis the most common type of diabetes. It is a chronic condition in which blood glucose (sugar) can no longer be regulated. There are two reasons for this. First, the cells of the body become resistant toinsulin(insulin resistant). Insulin works like a key to let glucose (bl...
To date, only the drug teplizumab has proven effective to slow progression to type 1 diabetes in some early cases detected before clinical onset. No approach has yet proven effective to prevent type 1 diabetes. Prevention of type 2 diabetes can be accomplished in some cases by: maintaining a...
Type 1 diabetes is less common but more severe than type 2 diabetes. Only about 5% of people have this form, also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and formerly referred to as "juvenile" diabetes, because it usually develops in children and teenagers, though adults can also be diagno...
Type 2diabetesis the most common type of diabetes. It is a chronic condition in which blood glucose (sugar) can no longer be regulated. There are two reasons for this. First, the cells of the body become resistant toinsulin(insulin resistant). Insulin works like a key to let glucose (bl...
Tests for type 2 diabetes are straightforward, and can be part of a regular checkup. Two of the more common ways to test for diabetes are the A1C test, which estimates your average blood sugar level of the previous few months, and the fasting glucose test, which measures your current bloo...
So what is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes? Type 1 is when the immune system destroys beta cells. This makes the body have little to no insulin. Type two means the body’s process of letting sugar into cells. Sugar actually builds up in the bloodstream. When blood sug...
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body has trouble using its own insulin to control the blood sugar. At the time of diagnosis, beta cells often are producing as much or more insulin as would be needed by someone else of equal weight. But changes in liver, fat, and ...
Type 2 diabetes is a condition where blood sugar levels are too high. Learn about diabetes symptoms, treatments, and medications.
Eveningness is associated with greater depressive symptoms in the general population. Depression and type 2 diabetes (T2D) commonly coexist. We aimed to explore the association between morningness-eveningness and depressive symptoms in T2D patients in the United States and in Thailand. T2D patients (n...