What Caused Diabetes
Health Encyclopedia: Type 2 Diabetes Causes Insulin Resistance
- Type 2 Diabetes - Causes - Insulin Resistance
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- Type 2 Diabetes: Risk Factors
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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
The characteristic features of most patients with t...
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Expert & Community Posts
Types of Diabetes: are there more than two?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...called "idiopathic diabetes" (diabetes of unknown cause). According to the official... Read more »
The Diversity of Diabetes
By Dr. Fran Cogen , Health Expert...scored well on. In a previous blog we discussed the causes of type 1 diabetes: the destruction... Read more »
Diabetes Incidence On The Rise
By GingerVieira , Health Expert...the disease as if both diseases are the same and caused by the same things. I don’t think... Read more »
Not Your Grandma's Diabetes
By Svati , Health Expert...here]." The many misconceptions that people have because they don't know the difference between... Read more »
Flatbush diabetes
By Gretchen Becker , Health Expert...is monogenic, meaning a mutation in only one gene causes the disease, and the affected gene is... Read more »
Health Guide
What do I need to know about diabetes?"
...is diagnosed when a person can no longer make enough insulin, or use this insulin properly. Diabetes causes glucose to build up in the blood instead of moving into the cells. There are three main... Read more »Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
...insulin to meet the body's needs. The beta cell defects in gestational diabetes result from the same causes as hyperglycemia in general, and includes autoimmune disease, genetic, and insulin... Read more »Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens
...them. ************************************************************ Expert Caregiver Dorian Martin: Because dementia and Alzheimer's Disease has been prevelant in the maternal side of my family, I... Read more »Canadian Scientists find cure for diabetes in mice
...Quick's response For more stories on this breakthrough research click below: Type 1 Diabetes May Be Caused By Disruption of Link Between Nerve Cells and Beta Cells-JDRFResearchers reverse... Read more »Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Diabetes
...childbearing age has PCOS. It can occur in girls as young as 11 years old. PCOS is the most common cause of female infertility. This term has also become a catch-all phrase for the wide variations... Read more »Images
Medications
...to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
...unaffected by these drugs. While exenatide does not cause low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) itself,... Read more »
...that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to... Read more »
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Related News
Environmental Triggers for Type 1 Diabetes
May 05, 2008SEATTLE (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- The number of people who have type 1 diabetes has tripled in the last 50 years. Now, scientists believe the... Read summary »
Genes and Diabetes Increase Heart Problems
December 03, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Type 2 diabetes is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It increases a person's risk of having a major cardiac event... Read summary »
Aspirin and Diabetic Cardio Risk
November 12, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Low-dose aspirin has been recommended as a primary prevention strategy for patients with an increased cardiovascular risk, but... Read summary »
Diabetes Treatment Ups Depression Risk
July 09, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) The treatment used to help people with type 2 diabetes may cause some patients to develop depression. Johns Hopkins researchers... Read summary »
Diabetes Risks Could Start in the Womb
May 27, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Babies with low birth weight caused by intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) are at risk for developing adult-onset, type 2... Read summary »
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