• male
• 50 Years
• 10/05/2022

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How is diabetes developed or gotten?

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Dr Shubham Chauhan

General Practitioner

• MBBS
• 4+ Yrs

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Exact cause is unknown but most appreciated hypothesis is either low insulin or insulin resistance due to genetic +/- environmental factors.

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