Daily Piece: Type 2 Diabetes as a Spectrum Not One Size Fits All

So we know that Type 2 diabetes tends to be labelled as a broad type of diabetes yet at it looks quite different person to person. Dr. Mechanick, one  author of the position statement from AACE and ACE, describes Type 2 diabetes as a spectrum of dysglycemia based chronic disease beginning as with insulin resistance with potential to become disease with vascular complications (such as retinopathy and neuropathy). Click below to learn more about this spectrum.

https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/diabetes/news/in-the-journals/%7B13ecdfad-cd86-441c-bccf-d571f2cbd209%7D/position-statement-identifies-4-distinct-stages-of-type-2-diabetes

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