Type 2 Diabetes

                                       Type 2 Diabetes

• Type 2 diabetes makes up most diabetes cases. It most often occurs in adulthood. However, because of high obesity rates, teens and young adults are now being diagnosed with it. Many people with type 2 diabetes do not know they have it.

• Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not make enough insulin, or the body cannot properly use the insulin it does create. Eventually, the pancreas may stop producing insulin altogether. Type 2 diabetes can affect people at any age. In both men and women, the more overweight an individual is, the greater the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

 

·         Type 2 Diabetes, known as Adult onset or noninsulin dependent diabetes.

·         Type 2 Diabetes is primarily a disorder in which the cell in the body are not responding to thehigh level of insulin circulating in the body. The body becomes increasingly resistant to insulin.

·         Type 2 diabetes , body resists the effect of insulin.

·         A hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into cells..

·   In the end type 2 diabetesthe beta cells of the pancreas are not producing enough insulin.

Risk factors of Type 2 diabetes:-

Your risk of type 2 diabetes typically increases when you are

• Older
• Less active
• Overweight or obese
• Bad Diet
• Increasing age
• Living a sedentary life style