Type 1 diabetes (also known as diabetes mellitus) is an autoimmune disease in which immune cells attack and destroy the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. The loss of insulin leads to the ...
Diabetes mellitus was the eighth leading cause of death in the United States in 2022, accounting for 3.1 percent of all deaths that year. At that time, around 8.4 percent of adults living in the ...
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes can lead to the vision-threatening condition known as diabetic retinopathy. High blood sugar in poorly controlled diabetes can damage vessels in the light-sensing retina in ...