**2.3 Type 2 diabetes mellitus**

Type 2 diabetes is commonest type of diabetes throughout the world accounting around 90% of all the diabetic patients. It is occurred due to insufficient production of insulin or insulin resistance. During insulin resistance insulin become ineffective as a result, body produce excessive insulin initially to control the elevated level of

**Figure 2.** *The symptoms of type 1 diabetes.*

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glucose but as the time passes productive ability of insulin producing cell is lost ultimately a state of inadequate insulin production is developed. Usually type 2 diabetes occurs in older adults but it is increasingly seen in children, adolescent and young adults due to physical inactivity, poor diet increasing level of obesity (13–15). Type 2 diabetes alarming incidence in Pakistan is associated with poor diet etc. [9]. The estimated prevalence of Pakistan ranges from 7.6 to 11% in 2011 [10]. The symptoms of T2DM are like T1DM (**Figures 3** and **4**).
