About 1,800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Unfortunately, about half of all people with Type II diabetes are unaware that they have it. Type I diabetes is usually detected right away due to the severe symptoms.
Diabetes actually refers to several different diseases.
A third type, gestational diabetes mellitus, occurs during some pregnancies. Type II develops mostly in adults and used to be called adult-onset diabetes. Type II does not appear suddenly - instead, mild symptoms may develop years before it is diagnosed. All people with diabetes have too much sugar or glucose in their blood. People usually have similar symptoms - unusual thirst, frequent desire to urinate, blurred vision, fatigue.