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Diabetes Overview

Type 2 Diabetes:

Diabetes is a common and chronic condition marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. Diabetes is problematic because it prevents your body from properly using the energy from the food you eat.

Type 2 diabetes is far more common than type 1 diabetes and makes up 90% or more of all cases of diabetes. In type 2 diabetes your body does not make or use insulin well due to "insulin resistance". The type 2 form usually occurs in adulthood, although more cases are now occurring in children due to obesity.

What is insulin resistance?

• Insulin resistance occurs when your cells do not respond to the insulin made by the cells in your pancreas.

• Glucose (sugar) is not well absorbed from the bloodstream and more and more insulin is required.

• Eventually, the cells can't make enough insulin to counteract the insulin resistance, and glucose levels rise in the blood.

• This may first lead to prediabetes and eventually type 2 diabetes, along with other serious health conditions.

In adults, type 2 diabetes is increasing in incidence due to:

• increasing obesity

• unhealthy diets

• lack of exercise

• the growing number of older

            Adapted from Drugs.com

Symptoms of Diabetes: What To Expect?

The symptoms of type 2 diabetes often come on gradually and can be quite vague at first. The most common symptoms are:

• increased thirst and hunger

• urinating frequently

• tiredness

• difficulty with healing; frequent infections, like thrush or vaginal yeast infections

• areas of darkened skin, known as acanthosis nigricans, which may be a sign of insulin resistance

• blurred vision

• weight loss.

            Adapted from Drugs.com

Learn More: View the Drugs.com Type 2 Diabetes Overview