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Know About Diabetes

• Diabetes is a Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) that arises when the pancreas fails to generate enough insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose), or when the body is unable to effectively use the insulin that is produced. #GKbyMilitaryChoice
 
Diabetes Types:

• Diabetes Type 1:
This kind of diabetes, often known as juvenile diabetes (since it primarily affects children aged 14-16 years), occurs when the body fails to produce enough insulin.

It is most commonly found in children and adolescents. Although it is less common, it is far more severe than type 2.
 
• Diabetes Type 2:
It has an impact on how the body uses insulin. While the body continues to produce insulin.

Type 2 diabetes can develop at any age, including childhood. This type of diabetes, however, is more common in middle-aged and older adults.
 
• Gestational Diabetes: This form occurs in pregnant women when the body becomes less sensitive to insulin. Gestational diabetes does not affect all women and normally goes away after the baby is born.

Diabetes has a negative impact on five key organs: the kidney, heart, blood vessels, nervous system, and eyes (retina).

India has the greatest number of type 1 diabetes children and adolescents in the world.

In 1921, researchers from the University of Toronto discovered insulin, the world's first life-saving treatment for diabetes.