Diabetes
What Is Diabetes - Biomedical Glucose needs the help of a hormone called insulin to help it flow from the blood to the body cells. There are two main types of diabetes: Type 1 (previously known as insulin dependent), and Type 2 (previously known as non-insulin dependent). Type 2 diabetes is further split in three a) Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG), b) Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and c) Gestational Diabetes.