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About Diabetes
Top 10
Diabetes is one of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States.
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+34 Million
More than 34 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 1 in 5 of them don’t know they have it.
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+88 Million
More than 88 million US adults—over a third—have prediabetes, and more than 84% of them don’t know they have it.
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Diabetes is a high amount of blood sugar in your system also called glucose. This can be from the way your body turns food into energy called insulin. When the insulin does not produce enough or not work as well, it leaves a high amount of sugar in your system that is supposed to be turned into energy.
Type 1 diabetes, stops the cells that create insulin.
Type 2 diabetes, lessens the body’s response to produce insulin.
Consequently, the body does not produce enough insulin to manage the glucose in the body.