Type 1 diabetes only accounts for 5-10% of cases so you can assume that the numbers most likely mostly come from type 2 diabetes cases. I agree that this is making the data more imprecise than necessary but not completely useless.
That’s not entirely true. Weight and diet are definitely risk factors, but so are age, genetics and a history of gestational diabetes. The main thing is that your body becomes resistant to insulin for one reason or another, causing hyperglycemia. Whereas with type 1 your body stops making insulin entirely because your immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas, to the same result.
It’s a common sentiment that those who have type 2 are to blame for it, but I had a professor at university who was rail thin and active and had type 2.
Type 1 and 2 diabetes are very different conditions, making this data pretty much useless.
Type 1 diabetes only accounts for 5-10% of cases so you can assume that the numbers most likely mostly come from type 2 diabetes cases. I agree that this is making the data more imprecise than necessary but not completely useless.
Exactly. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease and type 2 is a disease caused by obesity and an unhealthy diet, for example.
That’s not entirely true. Weight and diet are definitely risk factors, but so are age, genetics and a history of gestational diabetes. The main thing is that your body becomes resistant to insulin for one reason or another, causing hyperglycemia. Whereas with type 1 your body stops making insulin entirely because your immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas, to the same result.
It’s a common sentiment that those who have type 2 are to blame for it, but I had a professor at university who was rail thin and active and had type 2.