Causes/risk factors
- Type 1 Diabetes: Living With Complications - Cause
- Cause Complications from type 1 diabetes are caused by one or both of the following: Damage to the lining of the blood vessels throughout your body, causing them to become clogged with hard, fatty deposits called plaques...
- Type 1 Diabetes: Living With Complications - What Increases Your Risk
- What Increases Your Risk These factors can contribute to your developing complications from type 1 diabetes. Having one complication. If you have one complication from diabetes, you have a higher chance of getting other comp...
- Type 1 Diabetes: Living With the Disease - Cause
- Cause You have type 1 diabetes because your pancreas can no longer produce insulin. When your pancreas was working, it adjusted the amount of insulin it made based on your changing blood sugar. However, insulin injections c...
- Type 1 Diabetes: Living With the Disease - What Happens
- What Happens Your experience with type 1 diabetes will be different from that of other people. But your treatment will be the same: taking insulin, eating a balanced diet that spreads carbohydrate throughout the day, getting reg...
- Zen and Insulin
- Researchers are slowly zeroing in on the long-suspected link between stress and type-2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 percent of all diabetes cases. Anxiety is now believed to exacerbate diabetes by raising levels of the stress hormon...
- Retinal Detachment - Prevention
- Prevention You cannot prevent most cases of retinal detachment. Some eye injuries can damage the retina and cause detachment. You can reduce your risk of these types of injuries if you: Wear safety glasses when you use a hamm...
- Sugar’s Role in Diabetes
- Sugar’s Role in Diabetes Diabetes mellitus is a common disorder marked by elevation of the blood sugar. Diabetes develops most commonly because the pancreas is injured and is unable to produce enough insulin (type 1 diabetes) or because the...
- Q&A: Diabetes and Cancer
- Q&A: Diabetes and Cancer Cancer and treatment take most patients to a new level of concern and stress, but sometimes they also can cause or aggravate symptoms of diabetes. Why does cancer sometimes cause diabet...
- Type 1 Diabetes - What Increases Your Risk
- What Increases Your Risk Risk factors for type 1 diabetes include: Family history of type 1 diabetes. Having a family history of the disease increases the chance that a person will have islet cell antibodies, but it doe...
- Type 1 Diabetes - Cause
- Cause Type 1 diabetes develops because the body's immune system destroys the beta cells which are in the islet tissue in the pancreas. These beta cells produce insulin. So people with type 1 diabetes cannot make their own insuli...
