Today I learned about diabetes.
Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin, or because cells do that respond to the insulin that is produced. There are 2 different types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2.
Type 1 is is characterized by loss of the insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, leading to insulin deficiency. It mostly effects people that are healthy and at a healthy weight.
Type 2 is, is characterized by insulin resistance, which may be combined with relatively reduced insulin secretion.
http://www.diabetes.org/
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