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Diabetes, Type 1

__**Description: **__ Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder that affects the body's ability to produce and use insulin, which is necessary for allowing sugar to enter cells to produce energy. It can also be known as Juvenile Diabetes or insulin-dependent Diabetes. Diabetes greatly increases the risk of blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, neurological disease, and other conditions. Diabetes Type 1, also known as juvenile onset diabetes, is one of the more severe form of Diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is far more common, this occurs when the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or doesn't make enough of it.

__**Chromosome location: **__ It is now known that the insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, or IDDM1, locus on chromosome 6 may have a susceptible gene for Diabetes: Type 1. Also, a gene at the locus IDDM2 on chromosome 11 and an enzyme on chromosome 7 may be susceptible to Diabetes: Type 1.

__**Treatment: **__ Today, researchers have not yet found a cure to Dibetes Type 1, but it can be managed with the right treatment. Patients are expected to live longer than patients who had it before, but even when glucose levels are under control it increases the risk of heart disease and stroke very much. Diabetes Type 1 is a disease that you have as long as you live.

__**Life Expectancy: **__ The life expectancy for Diabetes: Type 1 patients varies. If a child is diagnosed with Diabetes: Type 1 is as low as seven to ten years of age. But, many people who have Diabetes: Type 1 live well past that age. If a Diabetes: Type 1 patient excersises a lot and controls their blood sugar they can live well past the life expectancy age.

__**Support Organizations: **__ Some advocacy groups donating to find the cure or making Diabetes: Type 1 more treatable is JDRF, or Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. JDRF has donated over one billion dollars to help find the cure for Diabetes: Type 1. The American Diabetes Association, the AFC (Adventures for the Cure), and Integrated Diabetes are some well known advocacy groups either teaching Diabetics how to deal with their disease or donating money to help find the cure for Diabetes: Type 1.

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