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This document summarizes the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes. It describes how inherited and acquired factors like overweight and inactivity can lead to over-reactivity of alpha cells and excess glucagon production. This glucagon excess, combined with beta cell deficiency, insulin resistance where glucose uptake is reduced, and glucotoxicity where glucose production in the liver is increased, results in hyperglycemia and the development of type 2 diabetes.

Author
perdudikessby
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