Q5: Type 2 diabetes

Question 1

Diabetes

Answer 1

A metabolic disorder caused by an inability to control blood glucose concentration due to a lack of the hormone insulin or loss of responsiveness to insulin.

Question 2

Type two diabetes

also known as

Answer 2

insulin independent

Question 3

Type two diabetes

what happens in the body?

Answer 3

Normally due to glycoprotein receptors on body cells being lost or losing their responsiveness to insulin, or an inadequate supply of insulin from the pancreas.

Question 4

Cause of type two diabetes

Answer 4

obesity and poor diet

Question 5

Diabetes can’t be …

but can be …

Answer 5

cannot be cured

but can be treated

Question 6

How can type two diabetes be controlled?

Answer 6

regulation of intake of carbohydrate in the diet

matched with the amount of exercise taken

Question 7

Treatment of type two diabetes in some cases

Answer 7

injections of insulin or drugs that stimulate its production