Comprehensive Report: Understanding Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

This report provides a comparative analysis of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. It begins by defining Type 1 diabetes as an autoimmune condition where the body attacks the pancreas, leading to insufficient insulin production. The report outlines the lack of a known causative agent for Type 1 diabetes, rapid symptom onset, and the focus on blood sugar level management. It then contrasts this with Type 2 diabetes, where the body either doesn't produce enough insulin or the insulin produced doesn't function correctly. The report highlights known risk factors for Type 2 diabetes, slower symptom development, and a broader range of management options including medication, exercise, and diet. The report also references the lack of a cure for either type of diabetes, while acknowledging ongoing research and the possibility of prevention and remission for Type 2 diabetes, as well as the importance of early detection and intervention to prevent severe complications. The report cites Atkinson, Eisenbarth, & Michels (2014) and Chatterjee, Khunti, & Davies (2017) as sources for this information.

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Type 1 Diabetes
This is a disease whereby the body attacks the pancreas and hence makes the pancreas
unable to manufacture insulin or makes the body manufacture very limited amount of insulin. As
far as the risk features are concerned, there is currently no known causative agent for type
1diabetes. The symptoms for type 1 diabetes appear more rapidly. The management of type 1
diabetes is done by taking control of an individual’s blood sugar level (Atkinson , Eisenbarth, &
Michels, 2014). There is no cure for type 1 diabetes but there is continued research for the same.
If you have type 1 diabetes, it means that you have an autoimmune condition. The latter means
that the body has attacked and destroyed the cells that make a hormone called insulin and hence
the body is not able to produce any insulin. Insulin is required since it assists in taking glucose
into the body cells (Atkinson , Eisenbarth, & Michels, 2014).

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Type 2 Diabetes
For this disease, the body becomes unable to make insulin or the insulin that the body
manufactures does not work appropriately. Unlike type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes has risk
factors that are known to act as causative agents including weight and ethnicity. The type 2
symptoms are easier to miss since they appear more slowly as compared to type 1. There are also
more ways to manage type 2 diabetes than type 1 (Chatterjee, Khunti, & Davies, 2017). The
latter include but not limited to medication, increased exercise and improved diet. Persons who
have type 2 can also be prescribed insulin. There is no appropriate cure for type 2 diabetes.
However, there are existing pieces of evidence that type 2 can be prevented and put into
remission. There are some things that can put a person into more risk of getting type 2 including
age, obese, ethnicity and family history. Type 2 can also be prevented by heating healthily, being
active and maintaining good health. It is not easy to spot type 2 diabetes since it develops slowly
(Chatterjee, Khunti, & Davies, 2017).

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References
Atkinson , M. A., Eisenbarth, G. S., & Michels, A. (2014). Type 1 diabetes. The Lancet,
383(9911), 69-82.
Chatterjee, S., Khunti, K., & Davies, M. J. (2017). Type 2 diabetes. The Lancet, 389(10085),
2239-2251.