What is type 2 diabetes and how will it affect my life?
People with type 2 diabetes still have a strong chance of living long healthy lives. Through its only treatment, diet and exercise, type 2 diabetics can prevent many of the complications associated with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is developed when a person’s body either does not produce enough insulin or when their cells reject the insulin that is produced.
Complications caused by type 2 diabetes.
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High glucose levels
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Damage to the eyes
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Nerve damage
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Damage to the heart
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Kidney damage
How can type 2 diabetes affect you?
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Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or adult onset diabetes
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Insulin is still produced at normal amounts, however it doesn’t facilitate the body to use the sugar.
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Type 2 diabetes, diet and weight loss are the only treatment.
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There is a medication to treat Type 2 diabetes that is not insulin, but then as a consequence cells are more responsive to insulin.
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Common factors:
- Over the age of 40
- Overweight
- Strong family history of diabetes
- Stress
- High blood pressure or Hypertension
- African American ethnicity
- You are a female who had diabetes while pregnant or gave birth to a baby weighing over 9 pounds
More information about Type 2 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes Treatments - Once people are diagnosed, the primary goals of type 2 diabetes treatments are to control glucose levels and to reduce other conditions that put patients at risk for major complications.
- Type 2 Diabetes History - Diabetes has been one of the most devastating diseases known to man, and it has been recognized for over two thousand years, but there is no history of type 2 diabetes, or any other differentiation between different types of diabetes, until the twentieth century.
- Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms - Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, a disease marked by high blood glucose levels.
- Type 2 Diabetes Causes - Type 2 diabetes causes the pancreas to be unable to produce sufficient insulin, or in rare cases, type 2 diabetes causes the body to be unable to identify and use the insulin that the pancreas does produce.
- Type 2 Diabetes Diets - Type 2 diabetes diets are the best way to control your diabetes, or prevent it if you have not yet developed the condition.
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