Understanding Type 2 Diabetes: Biological Aspects, Progression, and Potential Outcomes

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Biological and physiological aspects......................................................................................2
Chemical treatment.................................................................................................................2
Pathways affected by the disease...........................................................................................3
Disease progression................................................................................................................3
Beta Cell Failure.................................................................................................................4
Potential outcomes..................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Type-2 diabetes is the health condition in which the body cells are not able to use
blood sugar (glucose) proficiently for energy production. This occurs when the body cells
developed unresponsive to insulin and the levels of blood sugar increases gradually. There
are two different kinds of diabetes mellitus, type one and type two. In type two, the pancreas
able to create insulin, on the other hand, the cells is unable to use it very proficiently
(Chatterjee, Khunti, & Davies, 2017). In these particular report biological and physiological
aspects, natural progression, and potential outcomes of diabetes type 2 will be discussed.
Biological and physiological aspects
In diabetes category 2, the human body either creates insufficient quantities of insulin
to encounter the requirements of the body or the resistance of insulin has advanced. The
resistance of insulin refers to when the body cells like the muscle, liver cells and fat cells are
unsuccessful to react to insulin hormone, even when amounts are great. In the fat cells,
triglycerides are cracked down to create free fatty acids for the production of energy; muscle-
derived cells and liver cells are without a source of energy be unsuccessful to form up
glycogen stocks. This also results in a complete rise in the glucose amount in the blood.
Glycogen stocks become evidently decreased and there is insufficient glucose accessible for
discharge when it might be required (Zaccardi, Webb, Yates, & Davies, 2016).
Chemical treatment
Metformin (Glucophage, Glumetza, others); generally, metformin is the principal
medication recommended for category 2 diabetes. It functions by dropping glucose creation