Diabetes

Diabetes Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body does not make, or does not properly use, insulin. Insulin is the hormone that helps your body use the energy from sugar, starches and other foods. The result is that your body doesn’t get the energy it needs, and unmetabolized sugar or glucose, builds up in your blood causing damage to the body and its systems. In the United States of America, about 16 million people have diabetes. That is about six percent of the total population. Every year about 798,000 new cases are introduced and diagnosed (Lifescan 1). Many different kinds of people are affected with this horrible disease. The three different types of diabetes are type one diabetes, type two diabetes, and gestational diabetes. The people that most often get type one diabetes are people younger than 30 years of age. The people most likely to get type two diabetes are people over the age of 40. But those are just the normals, that doesn’t mean that you can’t get them earlier or later. An estimated 18 percent of the US population, over 65 years old, have diabetes diabetes, type, percent, insulin, people, one, disease, body, take, about, million, control, blood, two, treatment, shots, diagnosed, need, diabetic, reduce, glucose, gestational, years, prevent, life, heart, diet, among, adults, women, way, three, symptoms, sugar, study