Immune-mediated or type 1 diabetes is a disease that affects the way your body uses food. It destroys the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. This could lead to a total failure to produce insulin and without insulin your body cannot control blood levels of sugar and you would die. An estimated 500,000 to one million Americans have this type of diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes usually appears suddenly. Some signs and symptoms are high levels of sugar in the blood, high levels of sugar in the urine, frequent urination, extreme hunger, extreme thirst, extreme weight loss, weakness and tired

Type 2 diabetes is disease that affects the way you body uses food. It is the most common type of diabetes and affects about 15 million Americans. Type 2 causes your body to no make enough insulin, or your body still makes insulin but cannot properly use it. Without enough insulin, your body cannot move blood sugar into the cells and sugar builds up in the bloodstream causing problems. No one knows the exact cause of type 2 diabetes, but it does run in families and usually takes another factor such as obesity to bring on the disease.

Type 2 develops slowly and most people who get it have increases thirst and an increased need to urinate. They also feel edgy, tired, and sick to their stomach, have an increased appetite, but they lose weight. Other signs or symptoms include repeated or hard-to-heal infections

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