Over the last couple of decades, doctors, healthcare practitioners, and medical experts have grown increasingly worried about the condition known as type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic condition defined by hyperglycemia that persists. It might be related to decreased insulin secretion, resistance to insulin's peripheral activities, or both. Chronic hyperglycemia, when combined with other metabolic abnormalities in people with diabetes mellitus, can harm a variety of organ systems.
This results in the development of disabling and life-threatening health complications, the most prominent of which are microvascular complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy, as well as macrovascular complications that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease by a 2- to 4-fold.
Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes are the three basic categories of diabetes based on etiology and clinical presentation (GDM). Monogenic diabetes and secondary diabetes are two less prevalent forms of diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes cases have risen sharply over the years, and currently, it is estimated that around 10% of US adults suffer from type 2 diabetes, though in reality this number is thought to be much higher.