Kat Linger decided to take an at-home health test. She thought she might find out she was lacking a certain vitamin or could do with some more iron. 💬 “Instead, it told me I was pre-diabetic.”
presents itself in two ways,” explains Anita Beckwith, a clinical lead dietitian specialising in diabetes at Kings College Hospital. “Either it’s a deficiency of insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar, where the pancreas doesn’t produce enough of it. Or it’s insulin resistance, when enough is being produced but the cells stop responding to it over time. That means the body can’t take up glucose from the bloodstream to store, causing dangerously high blood sugar levels.
Another risk factor for the condition is age, with people over 40 historically more likely to have the condition. But according to the research from Diabetes UK, cases of type 2 diabetes in young people are rising faster than those in over-40s. “When I was training, type 1 was called juvenile-onset diabetes, while type 2 was called mature-onset diabetes, with a distinct starting point of 40 years of age. That’s changed now, but it shows that until recently there wasn’t the understanding of type 2 in young people,” she adds..
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