a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels caused by either a lack of insulin or the body's inability to use insulin efficiently. Type 2 diabetes develops most often in middle-aged and older adults but can appear in young people.
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a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels caused by either a lack of insulin or the body's inability to use
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A medical condition where the body does not respond well to insulin, and the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to compensate. Type 2 diabetes is more common in adults than in children and youth, and is different from type 1 diabetes.
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<endocrinology> Also referred to as adult-onset diabetes. More common in the middle-age, overweight individual. Usually treated by diet control, weight reduction or oral hypoglycemic agents. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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see diabetes mellitus.
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Non insulin dependant diabetes (NIDDM). Diabetees that initially can be treated with diet and oral drugs. Is caused by an increased resistance to the insulin produced by the pancreas.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels caused by either a lack of insulin or the body's inability to use insulin efficiently. Type 2 diabetes develops most often in middle-aged and older adults but can appear in young people.
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Type 2 diabetes: See Diabetes, type 2. Common Misspellings: type 2 diabeties, type 2 diabettes, type 2 diabetis
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Formally called Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or adult-onset diabetes. A condition characterized by high blood glucose levels caused by either a lack of insulin or the body’s inability to use insulin efficiently. Type 2 diabetes develops most often in middle-aged and older adults but can appear in young people.
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Diabetes caused by not enough insulin being secreted to counteract high blood sugars from insulin resistance.
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Occurs when the pancreas cannot use insulin properly (called `insulin resistance`), cannot make enough insulin, or both, leading to high levels of glucose in the blood. About 90% to 95% of people in the United States with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.
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non-insulin-dependent diabetes, a condition in which your body either doesn't make enough insulin or doesn't use it properly and can't properly use blood glucose as energy; type 2 may be treated with oral medication, but could eventually require insulin.
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People with type 2 diabetes cannot use insulin to turn glucose into energy. Type 2 diabetes is much more common than type 1, and occurs mainly in adults although it is now also increasingly diagnosed in children and young adults.
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(Previously called adult onset diabetes) results when the body doesnt respond appropriately to insulin, a condition called `insulin resistance.` This more common variety of diabetes often runs in families and develops most often in middle-aged and older adults but can appear in young people.
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a condition in which the body either makes too little insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it makes to convert blood glucose to energy. Type 2 diabetes may be controlled with diet, exercise, and weight loss, or may require oral or injected medications and/or insulin injections.
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Type 2 diabetes is when the pancreas does not make enough insulin or when the body does not properly use the insulin that it does make. Type 2 diabetes can be treated with diet and lifestyle changes, medicine and sometimes insulin. About 90% of people with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes. It usually develops in adulthood and less often in childhood.
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A type of diabetes in which the insulin produced is either not enough or the person's body does not respond normally to the amount present; therefore, glucose in the blood cannot get into the body's cells for use as energy. This results in an increase in the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
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