The Type 1 diabetes affects approximately 10% of all diabetics. This form of the disease can occur at any age but most often it appears in childhood or early adulthood, hence its old name of “juvenile diabetes“.
Diabetes can develop asymptomatic manner over a long period. Individuals who have it produce very little or no insulin due to an autoimmune reaction that destroys partially or fully pancreatic beta cells. The latter role is to synthesize the hormone, which is essential to the use of blood glucose by the body as an energy source. In this type of diabetes, it is absolutely necessary to take regular insulin, hence the name often ascribed to “diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
It is not known precisely what causes the immune system to respond to beta cells. Researchers believe that genetic predisposition and factors related to the environment contribute to the development of type 1 diabetes. We know in particular that certain viruses and toxins can trigger such a reaction in people with genetic predispositions.
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