What is Type 2 Diabetes? - Diabetes 1 | Tanza Erlambang Update

Higher sugar food is one of risk factors for type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is a form of diabetes occurs when blood sugar (glucose) increases than normal level (in-controlable) in our body, also called as hyperglycemia.

More than 400 million people are living with this type of diabetes in the world in 2015.

In the USA, there are around 30.3 million people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2015, and more than 80 million are in stage of pre-diabetes.

The number are estimated will be increase both in America and world in coming years.

How people could get type 2 diabetes? Body doesn’t use insulin effectively. To respond to this condition, pancreas produces more insulin than usual.

Day by day and at the some point, pancreas ability to produce insulin decreasing, thus blood glucose can not be keep at normal level in the body.

A corner of my city, just for illustration

Some risk factor of type 2 diabetes are following:

* Excess weight

* Physical in-activity

* Poor diet

Other factor could stimulate type 2 diabetes are older age, genetic or family history, certain ethnicity and high blood pressure. However, in term of age, children also got type 2 diabetes.

We could conclude that there are two kinds of risk factors: non-modifiable and modifiable. Please see at figure above.

32 comments:

The Armchair SquidFebruary 2, 2019 at 11:44 AM
Hello, Tanza! Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Thanks for your thoughts on diabetes, too.
GigaFebruary 2, 2019 at 1:10 PM
Unfortunately, more and more people are suffering from it. Greetings.
Rajiv SankarapillaiFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:35 AM
Very informative post about Type 2 Diabetes. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Susan Flett SwiderskiFebruary 3, 2019 at 11:48 AM
My hubby has type 2, and it was attributed to his exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Thankfully, treatment and control is much better than what it used to be years ago.

Have a super day!
Jenny WoolfFebruary 3, 2019 at 12:28 PM
A family history can contribute unfortunately but it is possible to do a lot to avoid it with diet and exercise. Thanks for this interesting post.
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What is Type 2 Diabetes? - Diabetes 1
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What is Type 2 Diabetes? - Diabetes 1

moving is one ways to avoid diabetes
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