The number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. In 2019, diabetes was the ninth leading cause of death with an estimated 1.5 million deaths directly caused by diabetes

Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar (also called glucose) . When the level of glucose in the blood increases, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin to adjust the level of sugar by entering it into the ...