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  Diabetes - type 1
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes share one central feature: elevated blood sugar (glucose) levels due to absolute or relative insufficiencies of insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, accounting for 90% of cases.
Most patients with type 2 diabetes produce variable, even normal or high, amounts of insulin, and in the beginning this amount is usually sufficient to overcome such resistance.
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  Diabetes mellitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early symptoms of type 1 diabetes are often polyuria (frequent urination) and polydipsia (increased thirst, and consequent increased fluid intake).
Diabetes is often detected when a person suffers a problem frequently caused by diabetes, such as a heart attack, stroke, neuropathy, poor wound healing or a foot ulcer, certain eye problems, certain fungal infections, or delivering a baby with macrosomia or hypoglycemia.
Diabetes is a chronic disease with no cure (except experimentally in type 1 diabetics) as of 2005.
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 Diabetic Diet Resource :: Type 1-2 Diabetic Diet Plan
A diabetic diet is a balanced healthy diet with appropriate mixture of carbohydrates, proteins and fats at each meal so as to both provide essential nutrients as well as create an even release of glucose into the blood from meal to meal and from day to day.
With type 1 diabetes, there is a delicate balance of carbohydrate intake, insulin, and physical activity that is necessary for optimal blood levels of a sugar called glucose.
For those with type 1 diabetes, on a fixed dose of insulin, the carbohydrate content of meals and snacks should be consistent from day to day because if these components are not in balance, there can be wide fluctuations, from too high to too low, in blood glucose levels.
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 Type 1 Diabetes, Diabetes Type 1 - dLife.com dLife TV
Although type 1 diabetes develops most often in children and young adults (one in every 400-500 children has type 1 diabetes), the disease can be diagnosed at any age throughout the lifespan, and is equally distributed among males and females.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the insulin-producing beta cells within the pancreas are gradually destroyed and eventually fail to produce insulin.
Because type 1 diabetes is frequently diagnosed in childhood, it is sometimes referred to as juvenile diabetes.
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 Diabetes: Type 1
Type 1 diabetes is usually a progressive autoimmune disease, in which the beta cells that produce insulin are slowly destroyed by the body's own immune system.
Type 1 diabetes appears to be most common in people of northern European descent and in specific Mediterranean groups (such as Sardinians).
Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the presence of a variety of antibodies called autoantibodies that attack the islet cells.
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 Type 1 diabetes - WrongDiagnosis.com
Type 1 diabetes (also called "insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" or "juvenile diabetes") is the severe insulin-requiring form of diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is far less common than Type 2 diabetes, which typically affects older over-40 patients (though younger overweight patients with Type 2 diabetes are now more common).
Type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is usually first diagnosed in children, teenagers, or young adults.
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 Type 1 Diabetes
Some people develop a type of diabetes — called secondary diabetes -- which is similar to type 1 diabetes, but the beta cells are not destroyed by the immune system but by some other factor, such as cystic fibrosis or pancreatic surgery.
Type 1 diabetes appears to occur when something in the environment -- a toxin or a virus (but doctors aren't sure) -- triggers the immune system to mistakenly attack the pancreas and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas to the point where they can no longer produce sufficient insulin.
Diabetic retinopathy in type 1 diabetes is extremely rare before puberty no matter how long they have had the disease.
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 Diabetes Type 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Type 1 diabetes is a disorder that occurs when your body produces little or no insulin.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when most of the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas have been destroyed.
Usually the cause of this type of diabetes is not known.
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 Health Information - Yale Medical Group
Type 1 diabetes accounts for 5 percent to 10 percent of diagnosed cases of diabetes.
Immune-mediated diabetes is the most common form of type 1 diabetes, and the one generally referred to as type 1 diabetes.
The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown, but it is believed that genetic and environmental factors (possibly viruses) may be involved.
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 Diabetes-Remedy.com - Feel better!
Diabetes is a disease that has to do with the body’s production of insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas.
The term “diabetes mellitus” comes from a Greek word meaning “to siphon” and a Latin word meaning “sweet like honey.” These words aptly describe the disorder, for water passes through the person who has diabetes as if it were being siphoned from the mouth through the urinary tract and right out of the body.
Recent evidence indicates that this type of diabetes may be caused, at least sometimes, by viral infections.
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 Type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is caused by a lack of insulin output because of damage to the pancreas gland.
Type 1 diabetes used to be called 'insulin dependent diabetes’.
Diabetes treatment aims to stabilise blood sugar through diet, exercise and medication with tablets or insulin.
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 Diabetes (type 1) insulin-dependent, Type 2 diabetes non-insulin-dependent- blood glucose levels, symptoms Diabetes in ...
Type 1 diabetes develops when cells that make insulin have been destroyed by the body's own immune system.
Type 2 diabetes is associated with lifestyle factors such as increased weight and a sedentary lifestyle.
Diabetes is the single most common cause of blindness in adults of working age.
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 Diabetes Type 1
Prior to 1997, the type of diabetes typically diagnosed in young people was called juvenile diabetes or type 1.
Type 1 diabetes is the second most common chronic disease in children (after asthma).
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin.
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 Diabetes: Type 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The incidence of type 1 is higher than average among people with other autoimmune diseases, including Grave's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis (a form of hypothyroidism), Addison's disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), and pernicious anemia.
Insulin is essential for strict control of blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes, which is now established as the best way to prevent major complications in type 1 diabetes, including in the kidney, eyes, nerve pathways, and blood vessels.
Duloxetine (Cymbalta) is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, a newer type of antidepressant, that was approved in 2004 for treatment of pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
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 Type 1 Diabetes - American Diabetes Association
Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, and was previously known as juvenile diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is serious, but people with diabetes can live long, healthy, happy lives.
Some complications of type 1 diabetes include: heart disease (cardiovascular disease), blindness (retinopathy), nerve damage (neuropathy), and kidney damage (nephropathy).
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 Diabetes: Type 1 -- familydoctor.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
People with type 1 diabetes are more likely to have heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, high blood pressure, blindness, nerve damage and gum disease.
People with type 1 diabetes take insulin to keep their blood sugar level as close to normal as possible.
To keep their blood sugar levels from rising during the night, most people with type 1 diabetes need to take an intermediate-acting insulin before they go to sleep.
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 Type 1 diabetes - MayoClinic.com
Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar (glucose) into energy.
Although type 1 diabetes can develop at any age, it typically appears during childhood or adolescence.
Type 2 diabetes is a similar — although much more common — condition in which the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or the body produces some, but not enough, insulin to maintain a normal blood sugar level.
www.mayoclinic.com /health/type-1-diabetes/DS00329   (247 words)

  
 DIABETES: TYPE 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Both these conditions and diabetes type 1 are on the increase and all are triggered by abnormal T-cell responses.
Instead, they might be useful for specific situations, such as for people with type 2 diabetes, in emergency situations when a rapid insulin boost is needed, or for children who are at high risk for developing type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes also appears to increase the risk for celiac disease, an allergy to gluten, found in wheat, barley, and rye.
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 MedlinePlus: Diabetes Type 1
The primary NIH organization for research on Diabetes Type 1 is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Diabetes means your blood glucose, or blood sugar, is too high.
Type 1 diabetes happens most often in children and young adults but can appear at any age.
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 Type 1 diabetes
on Type 1 diabetes: diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes in children, young people and adults.
CG15 Type 1 diabetes: diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes in children, young people and adults - NICE Guideline
Scope Type 1 diabetes: diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes in primary and secondary care
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 MedlinePlus: Diabetes
The primary NIH organization for research on Diabetes is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or sugar, levels are too high.
Diabetes can also cause heart disease, stroke and even the need to remove a limb.
www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/diabetes.html   (1206 words)

  
 Type 1 Diabetes: Dedicated to Finding a Cure : Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
If you or someone you love has recently been diagnosed with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes, we at JDRF can help.
Our Online Diabetes Support Team (ODST) is made up of JDRF volunteers who have "been there" and are available to offer you immediate, one-on-one support.
Ongoing clinical studies ask if it is possible to stop the immune system from destroying beta cells in patients with new onset type 1 diabetes.
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