Which chronic metabolic disease is characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose due to insufficient insulin action?
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Diabetes mellitus
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells, while Type 2 occurs when cells stop responding to insulin properly. Before the discovery of injectable insulin in 1921, the disease was almost always fatal.
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