Obesity is a chronic disease. Obese people are more likely to develop diabetes than the average person. Eighty percent of people with diabetes have obesity and overweight problems. When you are overweight, your body will produce more insulin to control blood sugar. However, when the pancreas cannot secrete enough insulin, blood sugar will be out of control, leading to diabetes.
Today let’s talk to you about what diabetes is!
There are several types of diabetes, which will be introduced in order later. Today, we will introduce the first type first.
Type 1 diabetes: The cause is completely different from type 2 diabetes. It can be said to be an autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks pancreatic cells, so the pancreas can hardly secrete insulin. In order to maintain blood sugar balance, insulin must be injected every day. It is usually diagnosed when children are 7 or 8 years old.
It is worth noting that "Latent autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood" (Latent autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood), which was only discovered in recent years, is also a form of diabetes caused by abnormalities in the autoimmune system. Compared with children, patients of this type are diagnosed slower, usually between the ages of 25 and 35. Therefore, about 10% of LADA patients are "misdiagnosed" as type 2 diabetes.
Maybe you think it’s all diabetes anyway, so just go see a doctor! However, in fact there is a big difference! Different causes of diabetes have different treatment methods and medications. Patients with latent adult autoimmune diabetes are usually not fat and have no symptoms of metabolic syndrome, so type 2 drugs are not effective because what they really need is insulin!
For adult patients with diabetes, how do they know whether they have an innate immune problem or an acquired disorder? It's very simple. You only need to draw blood to detect whether there are two antibodies, GAD (anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody) and IA2 (anti-tyrosine phosphatase antibody).
