Friday, June 23, 2006

What Causes Diabetes?

You need to have the gene for diabetes. Then there has to be a something that triggers the gene. For many people with type 2 diabetes the trigger can be : being overweight, or stress on the body.

For children with Juvenile Diabetes - type 1 diabetes, a virus can confuse the immune system into identifying the beta cells in the pancreas as part of the virus and so the immune system destroys the beta cells and stops the production of insulin.

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