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Type 1 Diabetes Research Paper

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This disease was once known as the juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent. This is a condition where the pancreas produces hardly any insulin, sometimes not even any. There is not an exact cause for type 1 diabetes. What happens is the body's immune system mistakenly destroys the insulin producing in the pancreas. They have found that genetics may have a part in this, or even certain environmental factors. For example would be viruses.

The pancreas secretes the insulin into the bloodstream, thus enabling sugar to enter cells. Then comes the glucose which comes from food and liver.

Some symptoms would be an increase in thirst, frequent urination,bedwetting in children, extreme hunger, weight loss that wasn't planned, mood changes,

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