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What is Type 1 Diabetes?
Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about what it means to have Type 1 Diabetes. He talks about the relationship with insulin and usual age when it's picked up. Lastly he explains the relationship to the pancreas gland in the belly and what period of time it takes individuals to develop Type 1 Diabetes.
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So, type 1 diabetes is a form of diabetes which requires patients to be completely insulin dependent. Patients cannot manage without taking insulin, and could potentially develop life-threatening, serious, fatal complications, which we call diabetic ketoacidosis. It's the form of diabetes, which is normally diagnosed at a younger age, and also in children. We've recently seen an increase because of COVID of people who are developing type 1 diabetes, because it's essentially an immune overreaction that leads to the pancreas not being able to produce any insulin leads to damage to the pancreas with the help of with the antibodies which are produced because of the overactivity of the immune system and it impairs this ability to produce any insulin. Some patients lose that ability over a matter of years, some people would lose it really quickly But in our experience, people would go through the process in about 12 seconds.
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