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Diabetes risk

by mark on May 10, 2010

The risk of becoming diabetic is something which an increasing number of people around the world are facing as the medical condition is now more commonplace than ever before. But in which areas of society is the diabetes risk highest and which groups of society need to be more aware of the symptoms of diabetes?

What is diabetes?

In simple terms, depending upon which type of diabetes we are talking about, diabetes is either the body’s inability to produce enough insulin to ingest large levels of glucose in the blood or the inability of various cells and organs in the body to ingest insulin which will then increase the levels of glucose in the blood stream. An accumulation of glucose in the blood can lead to a variety of different medical conditions such as heart attack, nerve problems and other serious ailments.
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