Diabetes Patient- What everyone should know

The kind of person who would be considered a typical Type 2 diabetes patient has changed considerably over the past few decades.  Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult onset diabetes.  That was for two reasons.  One was to differentiate it from juvenile diabetes (Type 1), which usually begins in early childhood and  (unlike most cases of Type 2) isn’t caused by something the victim does. The second reason was that it was virtually unheard of until recently for anyone but mature adults to be diagnosed with Type 2, which is almost always lifestyle related.  Up until recently, the typical patient was someone in their late 40s or early 50s, almost always significantly overweight.
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