Diabetes health centre

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What is diabetes?

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Overview & facts

Understanding diabetes is the first step to managing it. Find out information on the causes of diabetes, , risk factors, warning signs, and prevention tips.

What is diabetes?

How sugar affects diabetes

Explore how blood sugar levels impact your body, what normal blood sugar levels might be and more.

Causes

What are the causes of diabetes?

Diabetes occurs when the body cannot regulate blood sugars. Are the causes for type 1 and type 2 diabetes different? Find out.

Are you at risk?

Are you at risk for diabetes?

Understand your risk factors for type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes.

Insulin resistance and pre-diabetes

Learn the symptoms, tests and treatments for the pre-diabetic condition called insulin resistance to help prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Metabolic syndrome

Learn more about metabolic syndrome and how it links to risk factors for type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes and organ transplant

Experts are not certain how often people develop type 2 diabetes after the transplant of a heart, liver, kidney, lung or other organ. One review of studies suggested that it could occur in more than one out of 10 people who get a transplant. Are you at risk?