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Top: Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Endocrine_Disorders: Pancreas: Diabetes: Type_1

Please submit only sites that are about type 1 or insulin dependent diabetes. Sites submitted must be in English.
Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong disease that occurs when the pancreas stops producing insulin because of an immune attack and destruction of cells within the pancreas that produce insulin.

Previously known as juvenile diabetes. Type 1 patients are insulin dependent and have to inject or use an insulin pump to manage their condition.


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