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Diabetes – Types, Symptoms, Causes, and Prevention

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  What is diabetes? Diabetes is a chronic disease that people are facing in day-to-day life. Diabetes is a condition where an increase in blood sugar levels. It happens when our body comes to the state when it cannot produce a hormone called insulin or it cannot produce effective insulin. There are several types of diabetes and causes of diabetes also several. The food we eat is spit and broken into glucose and absorbed in the blood. When the blood sugar level highs it signals the pancreas to release the insulin. This insulin lets the blood sugar to the body cells for energy. When a patient suffers from diabetes the insulin produced will not be effective or will not produce the insulin and blood sugar remains in the bloodstream and this leads to serious health disorders and affects other functions of the body. According to a WHO report in the year 1990 in India 26 million people were suffering from diabetes and it has been increased to 65 million in the year 2016. And now, ...