Diabetes is a chronic condition characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose resulting from either the body's inability to produce enough insulin or the ineffective use of insulin by the body
Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body is unable to properly control the amount of sugar in the blood. The body cannot control the sugar in the blood due to the lack of the hormone insulin. Diabetes has long reaching and wide ranging health affects for those that suffer from it. Diabetes significantly raises the risk of heart disease and stroke, blindness and kidney failure. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to death.
In most people who develop diabetes two typical symptoms are present-frequent need to urinate and increased thirst.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form found in the US. Ninety to ninety-five percent of people diagnosed with diabetes have this type.
In type 1 diabetes a persons pancreas is not able to make enough insulin for the body to function properly.
There are many differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes namely how and why a person gets the disease. But there are also similarities. They include how the disease is treated and diabetic diets that are followed.