EpiCast Report: Type 2 Diabetes - Epidemiology Forecast to 2022
Type 2 diabetes, formerly known as non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus or adult-onset diabetes mellitus, is a chronic disorder of glucose homeostasis and results from the body’s inability to make use of the available insulin along with relative insulin deficiency (WHO, 2013). This causes excess glucose production by liver cells along with impaired insulin secretion, which leads to an increased blood and urine glucose level. It further leads to steady decline of the beta cells of the pancreas, mainly affecting the...
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