Diabetes is divided into type I diabetes and type II diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type and the type with the largest number of patients. Want to know the meaning of type 2 diabetes, in fact, it is very simple, just to see if its blood sugar content meets the standard of type 2 diabetes? At present, the fasting blood glucose standard of type 2 diabetes is set to be greater than 7.0 mmol/L, and the postprandial blood glucose standard is set to be greater than11.1mmol/L. In other words, if your fasting blood glucose and postprandial blood glucose are higher than these two standards, and you have diabetes symptoms such as thirst, excessive drinking and emaciation, you can be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. If there are no symptoms of diabetes, but the fasting blood glucose and two-hour blood glucose data exceed this standard, type 2 diabetes can also be located.
In fact, type 2 diabetes is a very common type of diabetes, and its severity is not as high as 1 type diabetes. It is mainly caused by insulin deficiency in diabetic patients, so the incidence of type 2 diabetes is mainly middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old.
1 type diabetes mainly occurs in children or adolescents. Ordinary hypoglycemic agents have no effect on 1 type diabetes, so insulin must be used for treatment. Type 2 diabetes mainly takes hypoglycemic drugs, and only when their bodies produce antibodies to hypoglycemic drugs will they be treated with insulin. Therefore, patients with type 2 diabetes can control their blood sugar within the normal range as long as they follow the doctor's advice, take hypoglycemic drugs on time, control their diet and strengthen exercise.