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Type 2 diabetes can cause nerve damage, blindness, heart attack and stroke, among many other issues. “With Type 2 diabetes, your body can no longer make or use insulin, the hormone which helps the body regulate glucose levels,” Dr. Sheri Colberg, a professor of human movement sciences ...
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 ...
Natalie, can you tell us a little bit about some of the different types of insulin formulations that are available for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes? Natalie Bellini, DNP, FNP-BC: There is background insulin that we need to hold blood sugar steady. The way I teach this to ...
What medications treat type 2 diabetes? There are different types ofdiabetes drugs. They work in different ways to either stop theliverfrom making glucose, make the pancreas release more insulin, or block glucose from being absorbed. Insulin replaces the natural insulin when the pancreas can't ...
What is type 2 diabetes? The cells in your body need insulin to change glucose, the sugar that comes from the food you eat, into energy you need to live. Without insulin, this sugar cannot get into your cells to do its work. It stays in your blood instead. Your blood sugar level th...
What medications treat type 2 diabetes? There are different types of diabetes drugs. They work in different ways to either stop the liver from making glucose, make the pancreas release more insulin, or block glucose from being absorbed. Insulin replaces the natural insulin when the pancreas can...
Insulin Resistance and Type 2 DiabetesFor well over half a century, the link between in-sulin resistance and type 2 diabetes has been recognized. Insulin resistance is important. Not only is it the most powerful predictor of future development of type 2 diabetes, it is also a therapeutic ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus, the most frequent subtype of diabetes, is a disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose (hyperglycaemia). It arises from a resistance to and relative deficiency of the pancreatic β-cell hormone insulin. Featured...
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that affects how your child's body uses glucose (sugar). Type 2 diabetes develops because either the body cannot make enough insulin, or it cannot use the insulin correctly. You can help your child manage diabetes with healthy nutrition and physical activity ...