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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
EVERY three minutes in the UK, somebody is diagnosed with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.
Around three million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes, and it's believed figures could reach five million by 2025.
Type 1 diabetes, believed to be an autoimmune disease with possible genetic factors, can occur at any age but most often starts in late childhood.
With this type, the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells, so people have to inject insulin daily in order to regulate their blood sugar levels.
Symptoms include feeling extremely thirsty, frequent need to urinate, excessive tiredness, frequent skin infections and unexplained weight loss.
Type 2 diabetes is far more common, making up 90% of all cases.
http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/10472901.Dealing_with_diabetes_/
Around three million people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes, and it's believed figures could reach five million by 2025.
Type 1 diabetes, believed to be an autoimmune disease with possible genetic factors, can occur at any age but most often starts in late childhood.
With this type, the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells, so people have to inject insulin daily in order to regulate their blood sugar levels.
Symptoms include feeling extremely thirsty, frequent need to urinate, excessive tiredness, frequent skin infections and unexplained weight loss.
Type 2 diabetes is far more common, making up 90% of all cases.
http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/10472901.Dealing_with_diabetes_/