How do diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2 differ from each other?
a. Diabetes type 1 develops in people under 40 years old, whereas diabetes type 2 develops only in older people.
b. Diabetes type 2 develops in people under 40 years old, whereas diabetes type 1 develops only in older people.
c. Patients with type 1 diabetes are at higher risk for obesity and heart disease, whereas patients with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk for strokes.
d. Patients with type 1 diabetes produce no insulin, whereas patients with type 2 diabetes produce insulin but their insulin receptors are not very sensitive to it.
D
The main problem of type 1 diabetes is that the person can no longer make insulin. Without insulin, the patient's blood glucose level becomes very high, but glucose cannot enter many cells. Patients who have type 1 diabetes must use insulin daily for the rest of their lives or receive a pancreas transplant. With type 2 diabetes, the person still has beta cells that make some insulin. In fact, some people who have type 2 diabetes have normal levels of insulin; however, the insulin receptors are not very sensitive to insulin. As a result, insulin does not bind as tightly to its receptors as it should and less glucose moves from the blood into the cells.
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