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- Diabetes General Information
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 Diabetes is a chronic, complex metabolic disease. Type 1 (often referred to as Insulin Dependent Diabetes or IDD) is characterized by an inability to produce insulin due to the destruction of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans.
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1 also leads to many serious conditions ranging from death from
diabetic coma or insulin shock, to end stage renal disease, blindness,
amputations, nerve damage, and cardiovascular and peridental
disease.
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- Over 16 million people in the United States have diabetes, of whom five to ten percent (or about one million patients) have Type 1, the most severe form of the disease, and must take insulin. An additional one and one-half million Type 2 patients also take insulin.
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expenditures on all forms of diabetes are $112 billion, exceeding
expenditures on cancer.
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- Links:
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- Foundations
And Associations
- American Diabetes Association
- American Association of Diabetes Educators
- Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation
- Alberta Foundation For Diabetes Research
- American Journal of Kidney Diseases
- Diabetes Simulation Program Available On-line or Free Download
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- Government
- National Institute of Diabetes And Digestive
And Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- American Diabetes Association
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
(CDC)
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- Commercial
- The Diabetes Mall
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation - 'Companies That
Care'
- Yahoo - Health -
Diabetes
- Diabetes Scene
- Bob's Good Stuff
- Diabetes : Information : Animals
- Doctor's Guide
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