Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (1)
The second type of diabetes is called type 2, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and this type accounts, like we learned earlier, for the majority of all cases of diabetes, about 90% to 95% of all of our cases of diabetes. And in this type, the body doesn't have a problem producing insulin, but the body tissues, and specifically skeletal muscles, have developed a resistance to the insulin, so it's more difficult to move glucose out of the blood to be used as energy inside the muscle and other tissues. And lifestyle factors such as physical activity, diet, exercise, are the main ways to both prevent and to treat type 2 diabetes. So you should note here that both type 1 and type 2 diabetes both result in high levels of blood glucose, but this occurs for different reasons; there are different pathways that lead to this high glucose in the bloodstream.