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Type 1 Diabetes Overview

 

Patients' Guide to Insulin: About Diabetes

The purpose of the Patients' Guide to Insulin is to educate patients, parents, and caregivers about insulin treatment of diabetes.  By reviewing this information, you’re taking an important step to learn about diabetes and how insulin controls the disease to help you live a healthier life.

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2 diabetes and typically affects younger individuals. Type 1 diabetes usually begins before age 40, although there are exceptions. In the United States, the peak age at diagnosis is around 14. Type 1 diabetes is associated with deficiency (or lack) of insulin.

The Diabetes Center

Diabetes is a very big topic! To make the diagnosis, complications and treatment of diabetes more understandable, we have broken "diabetes" into several dozen diabetes topic pages which go into more and more detail. Our search engine will help you find specific diabetes information, or you can come back to this introduction page to see each of the diabetes topic pages listed.
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