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Type 1 and 2 diabetes are very different conditions, making this data pretty much useless.
Type 1 diabetes only accounts for 5-10% of cases so you can assume that the numbers most likely mostly come from type 2 diabetes cases. I agree that this is making the data more imprecise than necessary but not completely useless.
Exactly. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease and type 2 is a disease caused by obesity and an unhealthy diet, for example.
That’s not entirely true. Weight and diet are definitely risk factors, but so are age, genetics and a history of gestational diabetes. The main thing is that your body becomes resistant to insulin for one reason or another, causing hyperglycemia. Whereas with type 1 your body stops making insulin entirely because your immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas, to the same result.
It’s a common sentiment that those who have type 2 are to blame for it, but I had a professor at university who was rail thin and active and had type 2.
Yay, Germany Number Two. /s We currently have a political debate about this here, since a citizen council and the green party suggested several rules and guidelines around healthy food. Of course, the usual people are now scared that their Schnitzel gets taken away.
