You can develop type 2 diabetes at any age, even during childhood. However, this type of diabetes occurs most often in middle-aged and older people.<\/p>\n
Type 2 diabetes has been one of the fastest-growing conditions over the last century, and researchers have been looking at what other factors could be contributing to the steep rise in incidence.<\/p>\n
Type 2 is the most common type of diabetes. India has almost 61.3 million type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and 77.2 million prediabetes patients. There are about 27 million people in the U.S. with it. \u00a0Another 86 million have prediabetes. Their blood glucose is not normal, but not high enough to be diabetes yet.<\/p>\n
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SYMPTOMS<\/h2>\n
The symptoms<\/a> of\u00a0type 2 diabetes\u00a0due to high\u00a0blood sugar\u00a0may include:<\/p>\n Type 2 diabetes risk factors include the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obesity or being overweight is the main risk factor for type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n Increasing age is a significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes begins to rise significantly at about age 45, and rises considerably after age 65.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Physical stress or mental stress has been proven to instigate changes in blood sugar levels, which for people with diabetes can be problematic.<\/p>\n Research has been published that indicates that pollution and other chemicals that we commonly face in our daily lives might increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>If you have type 2 diabetes, you may need (or eventually need) medicines that reduce high levels of blood sugar.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n If you have type 2 diabetes, your GP or diabetes healthcare team will need to take a reading of your long-term blood glucose level about every three to four months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n If you are overweight, Metformin is the first medicine that is recommended to treat type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n It works by reducing the amount of glucose that your liver releases into your bloodstream. It also makes your body’s cells more responsive to insulin.<\/p>\n Sulphonylureas<\/p>\n Sulphonylureas increase the amount of insulin that is produced by your pancreas.<\/p>\n You may be prescribed one of these medicines if you cannot take metformin or if you are not overweight.<\/p>\n Thiazolidinedione medicines (pioglitazone) make your body’s cells more sensitive to insulin so that more glucose is taken from your blood. They are not often used alone, but are usually used in addition to metformin or sulphonylureas, or both.<\/p>\n Avoid sugars, sweets, meat, or refined carbs, and white rice.<\/p>\n Yoga & Pranayama, such as Anulom-Vilom,<\/em> Sheetali, Kapalbhati, can potentially ease the patient’s life.<\/p>\n Eating fiber decreases blood sugar and insulin concentrations.\u00a0 \u00a0The recommended amount of fiber is around 30 grams per day.<\/p>\n Aloe vera might help protect and repair the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.<\/p>\n There is some\u00a0evidence that bitter melon may help with the symptoms of diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Type 2 Diabetes You’re said to be type 2 diabetic if your body does not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes-research-update","category-type-2-diabetes","tag-type-2-diabetes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images-2-14.jpg?fit=295%2C171&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
OTHER SYMPTOMS<\/h2>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0RISK FACTOR<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nCAUSES OF TYPE 2 DIABETES<\/h2>\n
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TREATMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nMEDICINE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENT<\/h2>\n
Metformin<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Glitazones (thiazolidinediones, TZDs)<\/h4>\n
NATURAL TREATMENT<\/h2>\n
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