What Body Systems Are Affected By Diabetes
Health Encyclopedia: Type 2 Diabetes Causes Insulin Resistance
- Type 2 Diabetes - Causes - Insulin Resistance
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Causes
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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Expert & Community Posts
Diabetes Guilt
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Improving Medical Research
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Diabetic Engineers
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Health Guide
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
...diabetes, beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin are unable to produce enough insulin to meet the body's needs. The beta cell defects in gestational diabetes result from the same causes... Read more »Diabetes in Children: Myths and Facts
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...you better control over your diabetes.3. While uncontrolled diabetes can affect every organ of your body, your mind is the organ that you can use to control your diabetes. When you control your... Read more »Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Diabetes
...Insulin is a hormone that controls the change of sugar, starches, and other food into energy for the body to use or store. For many women with PCOS, their bodies have problems using insulin so... Read more »Type 1 Diabetes Causes: Islets of Langerhans
...progressive autoimmune disease, in which the beta cells that produce insulin are slowly destroyed by the body's own immune system. It is unknown what first starts this cascade of immune events,... Read more »Images
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Medications
...sugar such as dizziness, hunger, or sweating are unaffected by these drugs. Check the labels on... Read more »
...sugar such as dizziness, hunger, or sweating are unaffected by these drugs. Check the labels on... Read more »
...sugar such as dizziness, hunger, or sweating are unaffected by these drugs. Check the labels on... Read more »
...sugar such as dizziness, hunger, or sweating are unaffected by these drugs. Check the labels on... Read more »
...liver enzymes that remove budesonide from your body (azole antifungals including ketoconazole... Read more »
Related News
Predicting Type 1 Diabetes Better
March 18, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers have uncovered a fourth antibody that can better predict who is at risk for type 1 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes is an... Read summary »
Trouble Sleeping Linked to Diabetes
December 16, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The identification of a new mutation associated with type 2 diabetes suggests abnormal sleep patterns could be linked to... Read summary »
Immediate Weight Loss Key for Diabetics
August 25, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Weight loss is important for the millions of Americans who have type 2 diabetes. But a new study finds weight loss right after... Read summary »
High Blood Sugar Increases Birth Risks
May 20, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Even if a pregnant woman doesn't have diabetes, higher than normal blood sugar levels put her and her babies at risk for birth... Read summary »
Psoriasis Associated With High Blood Pressure, Diabetes in Women
May 22, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women with psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, appear to have an increased risk for developing diabetes and high... Read summary »
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