Type 2 Diabetes: Understanding the Link Between Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes has become a pandemic and is showing no signs of slowing down. Today, the estimated worldwide prevalence of type 1 and 2 diabetes is close to 300 million. This number is predicted to rise to 439 million by 2030, with type 2 diabetes accounting for about 90% of these cases. Individuals with type 2 diabetes are often told by their doctors that their disease can be effectively managed with healthy eating, regular exercise and blood sugar monitoring. These students have created a series of three videos that simplify the complex disease process of type 2 diabetes in the hopes that better understanding will motivate patients to better manage their disease.


In this video, the students uses animation to show how obesity can increase a person's risk of getting diabetes by inducing insulin resistance.

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This video was created by McMaster University students Steven Liang (BHSc), Tegan O'Brien (Arts and Science), Darren Liu (BHSc) and Vitheya Thanabalan (Life Sciences) in collaboration with the McMaster Demystifying Medicine program.

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Learning objectives:

   - Understand the disease mechanisms underlying type 2 diabetes
   - Understand the link between obesity and insulin resistance
   - Understand the negative impacts of high blood glucose
   - Learn why it is so important to effectively manage Type 2 diabetes

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