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As of 2014, around 387 million people worldwide have diabetes. What is the cause of this
disease, and what is the difference between the different types? Here, we take a brief look.
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Eating food, particularly foods high in carbohydrates,
increases blood glucose levels. The hormone, insulin, is O O
secreted by the pancreas, and when released into the
bloodstream allows cells to take in the glucose and use it to O
produce energy. Diabetes is a resistance to or lack of insulin.
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The immune system attacks The body becomes resistant High blood sugar levels
insulin-producing cells in to insulins effects, and can occur during 1 in 25
the pancreas, until it cannot its production eventually pregnancies. It usually
produce insulin, and it must decreases. Exercise and diet disappears after childbirth,
be injected instead. can help manage type 2. but can lead to type 2.