Type 2
Diabetes affects 100 million people worldwide.
Controlling your consumption of carbohydrates is an important part of managing your diabetes.
Risk factors for heart disease include high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, smoking, obesity, and diabetes.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
acidosis
acquired agammaglobulinemia
adult-onset diabetes
afib
agammaglobulinemia
anaemic
clot-busting
coarctation of the aorta
congenital erythropoietic porphyria
congestive heart failure
coronary heart disease
decompression sickness
furred
haemophiliac
MEN1 syndrome
MGUS
mini-stroke
mitral
monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance
toxaemia

Examples from literature

Being too heavy can cause health problems, such as diabetes. 
Doctors say that drinking only one soft drink a day makes it twice as possible that a person will get diabetes. 
Fortunately, for most people, healthy eating and enough exercise will stop type 2 diabetes. 
In the past, very few people had type 2 diabetes. 
In type 1 diabetes, the body cannot use its own glucose, or blood sugar. 
People with diabetes should not eat foods with sugar. 
The biggest problem with eating too much sugar may be that it can cause a disease called type 2 diabetes. 
Type 1 diabetes is natural – a person is born with it. 
Type 2 diabetes can be caused by eating badly for a long time. 
Bread made from almonds thus baked and pulverized, is considered an excellent food for persons suffering with diabetes. 
He was afflicted with diabetes, and dreamed that he was cured by drinking the water of this spring. 
People suffering from diabetes require a peculiar preparation of their food. 
Still other forms of alcoholic disease of the liver are produced, one being the excessive formation of sugar, constituting what is known as a form of diabetes. 
The presence of grape sugar or glucose indicates the disease known as diabetes. 

diabetes | American Dictionary

diabetes
noun[ U ]
us/ˌdɑɪ·əˈbi·t̬ɪs, -tiz/
a disease in which the body cannot control the amount of sugar in the blood

Examples of diabetes

diabetes
Monitoring diabetes control is essential from diagnosis as the information received provides valuable feedback as to the effectiveness of therapies.
The onset of diabetes can be delayed, if not prevented, by lifestyle and drug management.
Part 2 deals with chronic disease and disability, highlighting raised levels of obesity, diabetes and hypertension in most ethnic groups.
Eating disorders in young women with type 1 diabetes : prevalence, problems, and prevention.
These therapeutic areas include cardiovascular disease, oncology, metabolic disorders (diabetes), central nervous system disorders (depression, anxiety, stroke, schizophrenia), antivirals/antiinfectives and pain.
Eating disorders and intentional insulin undertreatment in adolescent females with diabetes.
Relevant information was provided to the individual who queried the prescription and diabetes-related information/education was also offered.
They suggested that patients rationalize their lifestyle choices, given their perceptions of diabetes and its personal implications for each of them.
Spontaneous diabetes mellitus in transgenic mice expressing human islet amyloid polypeptide.
It included questions about current and past smoking history and whether the respondent suffered from asthma, high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes.
However, there are few studies regarding diabetes mellitus which include foreignborn persons.
Genetic analysis of autoimmune type 1 diabetes mellitus in mice.
Investigation of the efficacy of these compounds in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes is an important area of future research.
Little is known regarding the regulation of metalloproteinases in diabetic neuropathy in man or in rodent models of this complication of diabetes.
Five of the focus groups involved patients with at least one risk factor of developing type 2 diabetes.
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