Even if diabetes is known as having four types, the most common is type 2 diabetes. In the United States, and in the world too, nearly 90 percent of diabetics have this type. This disease makes the patient's body not to produce or properly use the hormone insulin which is necessary to covert sugar and starch into energy. It is considered a degenerative disease; meaning that, over time, the pancrease can get overused and proper insulin management becomes impossible without drugs or insulin injections, which represent a huge burden for the patients, their families, but the health care system too.
Morbid obesity, which means that we are talking about a patient with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40, is by far the largest contributor to
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