Its important to understand the difference and misconceptions of diabetes:
"As a person living with Type 1 diabetes, 34-year-old Angie Hashemi-Rad must prick her fingers and give herself insulin every day to stay alive. Nothing irritates her more than having people mistakenly assume she has Type 2 diabetes.
As rates of Type 2 diabetes soar, tempers are flaring in the diabetes blogosphere, where many people with Type 1 diabetes are lobbying for a new, distinct name for their condition in hopes of clearing up misconceptions and securing more resources to put toward a cure.
While all people with diabetes are characterized by elevated blood sugar, Type 1 and Type 2 are essentially two distinct diseases.
Type 1 is an autoimmune disorder; the body has attacked itself and permanently destroyed the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Insulin is needed to transport sugar into the cells where it can be metabolized and used for energy.
People with this condition need insulin to live. They receive it either by injecting themselves with a syringe or receiving infusions through a pump attached to their body."
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