Volume 39 | September 2020

Cover Story

Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by abnormally high blood glucose levels resulting from an impairment in insulin action and/or insulin secretion. More than 425 million individuals have diabetes worldwide and projections show this number rising to 629 million by 2045. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterized by autoimmune-mediated destruction of insulin-producing β-cells, and type 2 diabetes (T2D) results from a combination of insulin resistance and β-cell insulin secretory defect; in the long-term, β-cell exhaustion and eventually destruction occur.


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