Juvenile diabetes (commonly referred to as Type 1 diabetes) can develop at any age from infancy. It is a disease in which the blood glucose levels are above normal, causing problems with converting food to energy. After a meal, food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells use insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, to help them convert blood glucose into energy.
How does it develop?
Juvenile diabetes develops when the pancreas cells stop making insulin; the body's defence system destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
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