Diabetes Causes - Risk Factors for Developing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

The causes of diabetes vary with the type of diabetes. The two major causes of diabetes are the body's failure to produce enough of the insulin hormone, and secondly the body develops a resistance to insulin. In other words, diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not create sufficient or any of the hormone insulin, or when the insulin produced does not work efficiently. Thus, this causes the level of glucose in the blood to be higher than normal levels. Causes of Type 1 Diabetes Type 1 diabetes is due to decreased production of insulin. In this type of diabetes, the cells in the pancreas that make insulin are attacked and destroyed by the body's own immune system, causing a severe lack of insulin. Type 1 diabetes generally

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