How to Use type 2 diabetes in a Sentence

type 2 diabetes

noun
  • Metformin is a first-line drug in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • All of these symptoms raise the risk for heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 23 May 2021
  • With type 2 diabetes, the body doesn't use insulin well.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Just one to three cups per day only lowered the risk of type 2 diabetes by 4%, the results showed.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The goal is to get your A1C levels (a marker of type 2 diabetes) to under 6.5% for more than three months.
    Hallie Levine, Health.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The drug is called Wegovy, and it has already been approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 7 June 2021
  • While it’s approved by the FDA for people with type 2 diabetes and not for weight loss, it’s become a trendy weight-loss tool.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • While it’s approved by the FDA for people with type 2 diabetes and not for weight loss, it’s become a trendy weight-loss tool.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That’s likely to lead to a rise in all sorts of health conditions — and not just type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Compared to those who didn't get sick with the virus, those that did were 28% more likely to go on to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This means that people with type 2 diabetes need to be mindful of their white rice intake.
    Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • People with type 2 diabetes tend to fare more poorly than those with type 1, in part because those with type 1 tend to be younger.
    New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Sometimes, there is even a blurring of lines between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF, 3 Feb. 2022
  • People with type 2 diabetes should also watch the cholesterol in their foods.
    Amanda Schupak, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
  • About 78% of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health, 22 Dec. 2023
  • People with type 2 diabetes do not make or use insulin well.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Higher caffeine levels were also linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, the study found.
    Chloe Taylor, Fortune Well, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Now, the question is how broadly the benefits extend to at-home use for type 2 diabetes patients.
    Katie Palmer, STAT, 7 Aug. 2021
  • In order to diagnose type 2 diabetes, your doctor can use a few tests.
    Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • While the linkage between overweight and obesity to type 2 diabetes is tight in adults and children, there is no such smoking gun for type 1.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The prevalence of type 2 diabetes grew faster among Black and Hispanic youth while the prevalence of type 1 increased more among Black and white young people over the study period.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 27 Aug. 2021
  • People with type 2 diabetes don’t make enough insulin or are resistant to it.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In type 2 diabetes, your body doesn’t make enough insulin or doesn’t use insulin well, leaving too much glucose in your blood without reaching the cells.
    Noel Cody, Essence, 25 June 2021
  • At the time, a new class of drugs was originally developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes but showed to have a drastic benefit in mice with Alzheimer’s.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2022
  • Saxenda, approved in December for weight loss, has been used, at a lower dose, to treat type 2 diabetes.
    John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021
  • While both type 1 and type 2 diabetes occur when the pancreas can’t make enough insulin for what the body needs, this lack of insulin happens for very different reasons.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF, 3 Feb. 2022
  • In terms of risk for type 2 diabetes, there wasn’t a significant difference between those with normal sleep and those who slept six hours.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There’s no one eating plan that every person with type 2 diabetes should follow.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Lewis contends with morbid obesity and type 2 diabetes onscreen and in his life.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Feb. 2022
  • For all the time and money health tech companies have poured into developing virtual care for type 2 diabetes, the field doesn’t have much of a track record just yet.
    Katie Palmer, STAT, 8 June 2022

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