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Name:Nur najmina binti mohd jelani

Class:2Al-biruni

College number:13114

Title:Diabetes Facts that can save your life.

Diabetes Facts That Can Save Your Life

Type 2 diabetes continues to exact a terrible toll.

Untreated, diabetes can damage the retina, causing blindness, and destroy thekidneys.Recent research links type 2 diabetes to a higher risk of dementia.People with diabetes are also up to four times more likely to develop heartdisease.

Researchers have identified roughly 45 genes linked to type 2 diabetes.

One of the hallmarks of type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance, which makes thebody less responsive to insulin, the hormone that helps break down glucose, orblood sugar"Insulin resistance may have evolved as a 'thrifty' gene or genes, to help thebody store energy for times of famine," says Daniel Lorber, M.D., director of theDivision of Endocrinology at New York Hospital Queens.

In our modern world, with food available everywhere we turn, this geneticevolution sets the stage for diabetes.Insulin resistance, obesity and poor glucose control run in families, so if anyclose relatives have the disease, you're at greater risk.Men are also more likely than women to develop type 2 diabetes.