Type 2 diabetes is a disease when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or the body cells do not able to use the insulin properly. If you are a type 2 diabetic, glucose builds up in your blood instead of using for energy.
What is type 2 diabetes?
It is the most common form of diabetes; people can develop type 2 diabetes at any age even during childhood. This form of diabetes usually begins with insulin resistance, a condition in which fat, muscle, and liver cells do not respond to the insulin properly. At first, the pancreas keeps up with the added demand by producing more insulin. In time, however, it loses the ability to secrete enough insulin in response to glucose level in blood.
Overweight and inactive lifestyle increases the chances of developing type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes formerly called as adult-onset diabetes (because previously most of the cases are adults. Now, type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed among children and adolescents), non insulin-dependent diabetes or NIDDM (do not need insulin for treatment), insulin resistance (body resistance to insulin).
People who are obese or overweight are most likely to develop insulin resistance, because many studies confirm that fat interferes with the body's ability to use insulin. Type 2 diabetes usually occurs gradually; it may take many years.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form, affecting 90 to 95 percent of all adults who has diabetes.