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1. epcoa · 1790279451 · focus · HN ↗

   "Some day, your immune system may decide to attack your pancreas."

   Immune attack of the pancreas is usually a disease of youth. Type 2 diabetes which is overwhelmingly the diabetes associated with aging is not an autoimmune disease.

   1. joshmarinacci · 1790281595 · focus · HN ↗

      Adult onset Type 1 has become a lot more common in recent decades. Ask me how I know.

      1. astura · 1790292038 · focus · HN ↗

         Know someone who developed type 1 diabetes in his 30s.

         1. jamiek88 · 1790297074 · focus · HN ↗

            Same. At first he was happy as he lost a load of weight, then it kept happening and he nearly died in the office. Just collapsed one day. Insulin is an amazing invention. My dog, a little pug, gets porcine insulin after prednisone saved her life but gave her type 1.

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