Insulin helps stave off long-term diabetes complications

Administering a daily injection of insulin or wearing some form of insulin pump might be irritating, but they are far better than having to deal with some of the serious long-term complications caused by diabetes.

According to the National Institutes of Health, diabetes mellitus Type 2, more commonly referred to simply as diabetes, affects the functioning of almost every organ in the human body, eventually. So the biggest problem for diabetic patients is trying to prevent the long-term complications that diabetes can cause.

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