What Types Of Diabetes Are There?
There are commonly two types of diabetes.
Type I diabetes is when the body cannot produce insulin. Type I diabetics must have daily insulin shots. A more rigorous definition can be that Type I diabetes is caused by an auto-immune process: the body regards the ß beta cell as foreign objects and produces an antibody to kill its own ß beta cells.
For Type II diabetics, the body produces insufficient amounts of insulin. Or, if the body produces enough insulin, the body is either unable to respond to the insulin or the insulin is used inefficiently (this is called insulin resistance). Type II diabetes, or also known as Adult Onset Diabetes, is more common than Type I.
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