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The difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes can be seen from the causes and risk factors.
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GridHEALTH.id – Diabetes or also known as diabetes is a disease that is well known to the public.
High blood sugar levels become one of the hallmarks of the disease diabetes. Diabetes divided into two types, namely diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2.
Although the two have similarities, there is a difference between diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2 to know.
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For example, the cause of diabetes, who is at risk of experiencing it, and how to manage it.
Reported from Medicinenet, Monday (12/20/2021), type 1 diabetes or what used to be called juvenile diabetes, is caused by autoimmune.
The immune system in people with type 1 diabetes attacks the beta cells in the pancreas which are responsible for producing insulin.
This condition causes no insulin production in the body of people with type 1 diabetes.
Though insulin is needed to carry glucose or blood sugar from the blood to the cells in the body.
Because there is no insulin, the blood sugar of diabetics will increase.
Meanwhile, type 2 diabetes is caused because the body does not produce enough insulin or insulin does not work as it should.
This condition, also known as insulin resistance, results in high blood sugar levels.
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In addition to the conditions that cause it, there are different risk factors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes are not affected by lifestyle and excess weight (obesity).
In contrast to type 2 diabetes which tends to occur in people who have a family history of diabetes, age, and have a poor lifestyle, quoted from diabetes.org.uk, Monday (20/12/2021).
Type 1 diabetes is mostly found in children because it is related to genetics, while type 2 diabetes generally occurs in people aged 40 years and over due to an inappropriate lifestyle.
Even so, now quite a lot of young people have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Symptoms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes are generally similar. But the time of appearance is different.
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes usually appear quickly, so they are easy to notice. But type 2 diabetes symptoms occur slowly, especially in the early stages.
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In handling, people with type 1 diabetes must always get insulin injections to control their blood sugar.
It is also necessary to do regular blood sugar tests and count the carbohydrates eaten, and have a good lifestyle.
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people diabetes Type 2 actually also have to live a healthy lifestyle and diet. The difference between the two is the treatment they take.
The incumbents diabetes type 2, sometimes need to take medicine diabetes in tablet form.
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