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Extract from notes: "TYPE 1 DIABETES – inability to produce insulin
- Unable to produce insulin
- Beta cells in the islets of Langerhans do not produce insulin
- Can’t be cured/prevented
- Autoimmune disease: body’s own immune system attacks the beta cells
- Begins in childhood
TYPE 2 DIABETES – insulin resistance
- Person’s beta cells do not produce enough insulin
OR
- Person’s body cells do not respond properly to insulin (the glycoprotein insulin receptors on their C.S.M don’t work properly)  body cells lose their responsiveness to insulin  do not take up enough glucose, leaving it in the bloodstream

- Due to excess body weight, physical inactivity, habitual eating of refined carbohydrates
- Begins 50+ years"

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