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Title: What is Diabetes? (Ref:What is Diabetes? )

Author: TWG
Copyright: 2011

People with diabetes have high levels of glucose in their blood, either because their body doesn't produce enough insulin, or because their body cannot respond properly to the insulin they do produce. There are two types of diabetes: Type 1, or insulin dependent diabetes, sometimes shortened to IDDM, and type2 diabetes, sometimes referred to as maturity onset diabetes.


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