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Diabetes is a Dreadful Disease
This overview of Diabetes comes from the American Chronicle:
Diabetes is a disease caused by marked increase in blood glucose level.
Diabetes mellitus is the common disease seen in the United States. It is estimated that 16 million Americans are already caught with diabetes, and 5.4 million diabetics are not aware of the existing disease.
The main cause of diabetes is deficiency in the hormone insulin produced by the islets of langerhans in pancreas or the inability of the cells in the body to take up the produced insulin. The main energy producing molecule in the body is glucose obtained from the metabolism of the consumed diet. This glucose is the source of fuel for the body. The main role of insulin is that, to move the glucose from the bloodstream to muscle, fat and liver cells where it can be stored and used when needed.
The above said mechanism is completely blocked in diabetes mellitus. The main types of diabetes is TYPE I diabetes in which the body makes little insulin and daily dosage of insulin must be taken to prolong life. In TYPE II diabetes usually occurs in adulthood where the pancreas does not make enough insulin and body does not respond well to produced insulin. People with this type of diabetes get diagnosed only in later stages.
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