2015年11月27日星期五

Do You Get Type 1 or 2 Diabetes

Diabetes is not a single disease, but a group of diseases characterized with high blood sugar. World Health Organization divides Diabetes into two types: Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes.

For the patients with Type 1 Diabetes, their pancreas isletβcells are damaged so they can not secrete enough insulin to help the glucose convert into energy so the blood sugar in body rises. Therefore, the patients with Type 1 Diabetes need to supply insulin that body needs to maintain normal physical activity. However, with the regenerative medicine development, Immunotherapy can repair and differentiate into new islet βcells to play their roles. In this way, the patients can get rid of the dependence on insulin. Type 1Diabetes only covers about 5% of the total population of Diabetes.

Most of the patients belong to Type 2 Diabetes. This type of Diabetes is not caused by damaged isletβcells, but by the insulin resistance. This part of patients with Type 2 Diabetes takes up about 90% of the total population. In the early stage of Type 2 Diabetes, the patients can use non-insulin therapy to treat this type of Diabetes. Immunotherapy is also effective to the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. It can eliminate insulin resistance so as to improve the insulin utilization rate by body cells.

The main differences between Type 1 and 2 Diabetes are as follows:

1. Patient age: Type 1 Diabetes is common among the children and teenagers below 30 years old. Type2 Diabetes is mainly found among middle-aged and elderly people above 30 years old.

2. Bodily form: The patients with Type 1 Diabetes usually are very thin, but those with Type 2 are fat or have the history of obesity, or normal bodily form or thin.

3. Disease process: Type 1 Diabetes develops very quickly and is very likely to lead to ketoacidosis, complications of kidney disease and eye disease and so on. However, Type 2 Diabetes progresses very slowly.

4. Family history of Diabetes: Most of the patients with Type 1 Diabetes do not have family history of the disease. It is very common for the patients with Type 2 Diabetes to have family history.

5. Blood sugar: For the patients with Type 1 Diabetes, their blood sugar is very likely to fluctuate thus causing hypoglycemia. However, the patients with Type 2 Diabetes do not have too many troubles in controlling their blood sugar.


The above article has introduced the main differences between Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. Once you are diagnosed with Diabetes, you should firstly make clear which type you belong to and then adopt relative treatment. In this way, you will be able to get a better recovery.

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