Diabetes - Knowledge clip
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Prevalence of diabetes and proportion of type 2 diabetes
Trend in diabetes numbers
Involvement of liver,skeletal muscles, fat tissue, intestines and pancreas
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Blood glycose control by insulin
Four main types of diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
- Gestational diabetes
- Rare types of diabetes; such as genetic disorder
Common characteristic of diabetes types
- Type 1; mostly young skinny people
- Type 2; mostly fat older people - 90% of cases
- Gestational diabetes; diabetes during pregnancy and after giving birth. These women are more prone to developing another type of diabetes later in life.
- Rare types of diabetes; very rare --> genetic disorder or pancreas dysfunction
Prevalence of diabetes worldwide
Three reasons why the number of diabetics will increase to 700 million in 2045
- Obesity
- Ageing, pancreatic-beta-cells function declines with age
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