TYPES OF DIABETES

TYPE 1 DIABETES;

Type 1 diabetes is a severe form of disease. It is an auto-immune disease, which mostly develops
in childhood or in adults under 30 years of age. (Auto-immune is where the body's immune system
starts destroying itself)
'Juvenile diabetes' develops in childhood and must be treated with insulin.It accounts for 5-10% of
diabetics in the world.
Inside the pancreas are cell clusters knowns as the islets of langerhans.