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How does type 1 diabetes affect your weight?

How does type 1 diabetes affect your weight?

Dr Partha Kar

The symptoms that usually occur when you first develop type 1 diabetes are: thirst, regular passing of urine, tiredness, weight loss and feeling generally unwell.

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Diabetes is a lifelong condition that sometimes starts in childhood. Type 1 diabetes most often first starts in children (particularly in children aged 6 months to 5 years or during puberty). Type 2 diabetes more often starts in later life but is becoming more common in children due to increasing numbers of children being overweight, with poor.

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