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Health Encyclopedia: Type 2 Diabetes Causes Insulin Resistance

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Type 2 diabetes is caused by a complicated interplay of genes, environment, insulin abnormalities, increased glucose production in the liver, increased fat breakdown, and possibly defective hormonal secretions in the intestine. The recent dramatic increase indicates that lifestyle factors (obesity and sedentary lifestyle) may be particularly important in triggering the genetic elements that cause this type of diabetes.

Insulin Abnormalities

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Diabetes

...weight gain or obesity, usually carrying extra weight around the waist insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes high cholesterol high blood pressure male-pattern baldness or thinning hair patches of... Read more »

What do I need to know about diabetes?"

Diabetes is called a disorder of metabolism. More simply put, diabetes keeps your body from properly utilizing the sugar obtained from food. Your body changes most of the food you eat into a form of... Read more »

Type 1 Diabetes Causes: Islets of Langerhans

CausesAutoimmune ResponseType 1 diabetes is usually a progressive autoimmune disease, in which the beta cells that produce insulin are slowly destroyed by the body's own immune system. It is unknown... Read more »

Cirrhosis: Causes

...disease, but it occurs in people who do not consume significant amounts of alcohol. Obesity and type 2 diabetes are the two main causes of a fatty liver. Some evidence suggests that insulin... Read more »

Colon and Rectal Cancers: Risk Factors

...feces. Such patients have a 5 - 10% chance of developing colon cancer 15 - 30 years after the operation.Diabetes. Many studies have identified an association between type 2 diabetes and colon... Read more »

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