Diabetes 101: What everyone should know - Mohave Daily News: News: According to statistics from the World Health Organization, the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association, more than 347 million people worldwide and nearly 30 million Americans have a form of diabetes, a figure representing nearly 10 percent of the population. In the U.S., an estimated 87 million people have “pre-diabetes,” blood sugar levels that indicate a precursor to Type 2 diabetes.
Type 1, Joson explained, involves no insulin production. About 10 percent of diabetics are diagnosed with Type 1 — previously known as juvenile diabetes because it was most commonly diagnosed in adolescents. Type 2 — also known as adult-onset diabetes — is generally a reduction in insulin production or a breakdown in how the body regulates sugars in the cells.
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