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Wa0004.
Wa0004.
CLASSIFICATION
WHAT IS IT?
•Type 1 •Type 2 Gestational
diabetes diabetes. diabetes.
It is a metabolic disease. Blood
sugar values are elevated.
WHAT CAUSES
TYPE 1 DIABETES? WHAT CAUSES TYPE
2 DIABETES?
Type 1 diabetes occurs when your
immune system, the body’s
Type 2 diabetes—the most
system for fighting infection,
CAUSES OF
common form of diabetes—is
attacks and destroys the insulin-
producing beta cells of the caused by several factors,
including lifestyle factors and
DIABETES
pancreas. Scientists think type 1
diabetes is caused by genes and genes
environmental factors, such as
viruses, that might trigger the
disease