Insulin resistance and prediabetes occur when your body doesn’t use insulin well.

Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. You can have just one risk factor, but people often have several of them together.

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high.

In most people with type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune system, which normally fights infection, attacks and destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin