When health professionals talk about the growing diabetes epidemic, they are usually referring to Type 2 diabetes. But that doesn't mean that Type 1, which afflicts up to 1 million Americans, is under much better control. While both types of diabetes concern the relationship between insulin and glucose, there are important differences in the progression of the disease and its treatment. The key distinction is that Type 2 diabetes involves an inability to utilize the insulin the body has, while Type 1 is an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
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