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Type 1 and type 2 diabetes. What is the difference?
What's the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?
Diabetes means that your blood sugar is too high. Insulin helps keep blood sugar in a normal range.
In type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus), the pancreas makes little or no insulin. Without insulin, cells cannot absorb sugar (glucose), which they need to produce energy. Type 1 occurs in about 10% of all people who have diabetes, and it usually occurs in people under age 30.
People with type 1 diabetes get insulin from a shot or a pump to keep their blood sugar in their target range. Most people with type 1 diabetes take two to four shots a day or use an insulin pump.
People with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes still make insulin, but the insulin production is not sufficient to keep blood sugars normal. About 90% of people with diabetes are considered to have Type 2.
People with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes can manage their diabetes by watching what they eat, by diet and exercise and sometimes by taking diabetes pills, or insulin, or a combination of pills and insulin.
Diabetes Items on eBay
Diabetes means that your blood sugar is too high. Insulin helps keep blood sugar in a normal range.
In type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus), the pancreas makes little or no insulin. Without insulin, cells cannot absorb sugar (glucose), which they need to produce energy. Type 1 occurs in about 10% of all people who have diabetes, and it usually occurs in people under age 30.
People with type 1 diabetes get insulin from a shot or a pump to keep their blood sugar in their target range. Most people with type 1 diabetes take two to four shots a day or use an insulin pump.
People with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes still make insulin, but the insulin production is not sufficient to keep blood sugars normal. About 90% of people with diabetes are considered to have Type 2.
People with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes can manage their diabetes by watching what they eat, by diet and exercise and sometimes by taking diabetes pills, or insulin, or a combination of pills and insulin.
Diabetes Items on eBay
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