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  2. Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know, from Symptoms to ... - AOL

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    When they’re destroyed, the pancreas can no longer make insulin and blood sugar rises. Type 1 diabetes only makes up about five to ten percent of diabetes diagnoses. It can take months or years ...

  3. What Is Diabetes: Risk Factors & Treatment - AOL

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    When they’re destroyed, the pancreas can no longer make insulin and blood sugar rises. Type 1 diabetes only makes up about five to ten percent of diabetes diagnoses. It can take months or years ...

  4. Pancreatic beta cell function - Wikipedia

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    Pancreatic beta cell function (synonyms G β or, if calculated from fasting concentrations of insulin and glucose, HOMA-Beta or SPINA-GBeta) is one of the preconditions of euglycaemia, i.e. normal blood sugar regulation. It is defined as insulin secretory capacity, i.e. the maximum amount of insulin to be produced by beta cells in a given unit ...

  5. Insulin Resistance: From Symptoms to Treatment - AOL

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    Insulin resistance is when your tissues no longer adequately respond to insulin to lower blood glucose levels. Glucose is the sugar molecule your body uses for energy. Insulin is produced by beta ...

  6. Beta cell - Wikipedia

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    Type 2 diabetes, also known as non insulin dependent diabetes and as chronic hyperglycemia, is caused primarily by genetics and the development of metabolic syndrome. [2] [9] The beta cells can still secrete insulin but the body has developed a resistance and its response to insulin has declined. [4]

  7. Insulin - Wikipedia

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    Insulin is a peptide hormone containing two chains cross-linked by disulfide bridges. Insulin (/ ˈ ɪ n. sj ʊ. l ɪ n /, [5] [6] from Latin insula, 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the insulin (INS) gene. It is the main anabolic hormone of the body. [7]

  8. 10 Things You May Not Realize Affect Your Metabolism

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    Type 1 diabetes, also described as insulin dependent diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, preventing the body from producing enough insulin. It ...

  9. Glossary of diabetes - Wikipedia

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    It is also an endocrine gland producing several hormones in the islets of Langerhans. The most notable of these latter is insulin. Pancreas transplant A surgical procedure that involves replacing the pancreas of a person who has diabetes with a healthy pancreas that can make insulin. Pancreatectomy A procedure in which a surgeon takes out the ...