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Diabetes - About Diabetes
What is Type 2 diabetes?
Last updated: Friday, October 01, 2004

What is Type 2 diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes is the most common variety of diabetes. It is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism in which the body effectively becomes resistant to the hormone insulin.

 
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Initially, the person with this disorder has impaired tolerance to glucose. This develops into high blood glucose levels after eating and eventually high blood glucose levels even when fasting.

However, some people with Type 2 diabetes remain relatively sensitive to insulin, while others have little or no insulin sensitivity. This difference affects treatment of the disease. In general, those Type 2 diabetics who are not obese retain some sensitivity to insulin.

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Insulin resistance and diabetes
The treatment of Type 2 diabetes
Are there different types of diabetes?

 
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