Getting Acquainted with Diabetes

Type II : -

Type II is non-insulin-dependent diabetes; additional insulin is not usually required to sustain life. The American Diabetes Association further divides this category into subtypes that include obese non-insulin-dependent diabetes and nonobese non-insulin-dependent diabetes. (Estimates are that 60-90 percent of those with non-insulin-dependent diabetes in western societies are obese.) Non-insulin-dependent diabetes used to be called maturity-onset diabetes and may still be called that by some health care professionals. Type II diabetes is much more common than Type I. If you have non-insulin-dependent diabetes, you are one of 5 million Americans with the disease. This type is less severe than insulin-dependent diabetes and starts more slowly.
While patients with this type of diabetes produce some, or at times even excessive, insulin in their pancreas, it either is not enough for proper function or is no0t being produced quickly enough to influence glucose levels in the blood effectively. This type of the disease usually occurs in middle or older age and frequently in overweight people. It can most often be controlled by diet alone or by a combination of diet, exercise, and oral medication.

Characteristic of Insulin-Dependent and Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes :-