Philadelphia Treatment Guide

TYPE 2 DIABETES

More than 23 million Americans are currently living with diabetes, an autoimmune disease that causes the pancreas to stop regulating, making, or making enough of the storage hormone insulin.  The most common form is type 2, which usually develops later in life. “It’s a silent killer,” says Serge Jabbour, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine at Jefferson Medical College’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases. “Many patients feel great until they have a complication.”

 
 
 

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