type 1 diabetes

Type 1 Diabetes and Genes Behaving Badly

On: November 16, 2008

Type 1 diabetes (previously known as juvenile diabetes) is an autoimmune disease that attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in a person’s pancreas making it so the body is unable to produce insulin. It affects 5 to 10 percent of those people diagnosed with diabetes, and it increases the chance of cardiovascular disease,Read More →

Diabetes 101

By: M.J. Blackstone

On: November 1, 2008

In: Diabetes, Diseases and Illnesses

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November is American Diabetes Month, and if you know anything about diabetes, you know you don’t want it. Diabetes is a disease where either the body cannot produce insulin correctly or cannot use it properly, and there are four types of diabetes. They areRead More →