More than 38 million Americans have diabetes and of them, up to 95% have type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the condition usually develops in ...

Understanding what causes type 2 diabetes is crucial. The chronic condition occurs when your body doesn’t produce enough insulin or use it efficiently, leading to a buildup of glucose in the ...

Type 2 diabetes is characterized by the body’s inability to use insulin effectively. Insulin is a hormone that helps regulate metabolism properly. The condition is the most common type of diabetes, ...

Diabetes is very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that 38.4 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes. That’s 11.6 percent of the ...

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Kanikka Malhotra, a consultant dietician and diabetes educator, says, “Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are quite different.” ...

About 1.9 million people in the United States have type 1 diabetes, including an estimated 244,000 kids and teens, according to the American Diabetes Association. And though type 1 diabetes is less ...

Clinically known as latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), this condition often looks a lot like type 2 diabetes, ...

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...

Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact of this increasingly common autoimmune disease.