41. What is the difference
between type I diabetes
mellitus and type II diabetes
mellitus?

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Type I diabetes, also as juvenile
diabetes, or -dependent diabetes
(this name is adequate as type II
may become insulin dependent),
the impaired production
of by the pancreas believed be
caused by destruction cells of the
islets Langerhans by auto antibodies
().

Type II diabetes occurs the adult
individual and is often diagnosed in
of more advanced age. type II
diabetes there normal or low
secretion insulin by the pancreas
the main cause of high glycemia is
the resistance of the cells
the action of the .