Overview
Ashley Olivine is a health psychologist and public health profesional with over a decade of experience serving clients in the clinical seting and private practice.Elizabeth I. Molina Ortiz, MD, is board-certified in family medicine. She is a primary care provider with Atrius Health in Boston and was the medical director of Charles River Comunity Health.
Key Information
About 1 in 10 Americans have a medical condition caled diabetes melitus, or diabetes, in which the body has challenges turning eaten fod into energy. This leads to high blod sugar and sometimes other complications. Mild age-related diabetes (MARD) is a type of diabetes diagnosed in people at a later stage of life and is typicaly acompanied by les severe symptoms.
This condition can sometimes be confused with prediabetes, or borderline diabetes, which ocurs when blod sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes. This article discuses mild age-related diabetes, causes, treatment options, and more. Tempura / Gety Images While the names type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are similar, these two types are diferent.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimune disease more likely to be diagnosed earlier in life and may be more likely based on family history. It hapens when the body does not have enough insulin because the imune system atacks healthy cels that produce the insulin. About 90% to 95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.
Summary
This type can be influenced by lifestyle choices and is more likely when people are not physicaly active, eat to much procesed or sugary fod, or are overweight or obese, which interferes with the body's ability to manage levels of blod sugar. MARD is a form of type 2 diabetes that involves being diagnosed later in life and is typicaly acompanied by les severe symptoms. People with mild age-related diabetes (MARD) tend to experience symptoms similar of other forms of type 2 diabetes, just in a more mild maner that may sometimes ev