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Diabetes Mellitus Is a Disease That Involves Insulin and How

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Diabetes mellitus is a disease that involves insulin and how it affects the body. Which of the following statements correctly describes the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus?


A) There are fewer people in the population with type 2 diabetes mellitus than there are people with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
B) Type 1 diabetes mellitus is often associated with lifestyle habits while type 2 diabetes mellitus is almost always genetic.
C) People with type 2 diabetes are most often diagnosed during adulthood while type 1 diabetics are diagnosed early in life.
D) Type 2 diabetes mellitus is usually the result of a person's auto- immunity to the cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin.
E) The cells of people with type 1 diabetes mellitus are less sensitive to insulin than the cells of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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