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The burden of diabetes rapidly increasing hundreds of millions battle with the is as
chronic disease, making a leading cause of death globally. Its occurrence brings with it it a
heavy burden borne by the patient, society, and economy when battling related
complications, mortality and disease management. Diabetes occurs when the individual’s
pancreas fails produce sufficient insulin, or the body becomes ineffective utilizing the to in
insulin produced. Besides the common type 1 and 2, individuals suffer prediabetes
alongside gestational diabetes experienced by expectant mothers. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) report in 2017 showed over a hundred million adults battling
diabetes or prediabetes (CDC, 2017). The statistics confirm the growing health problem
presented by diabetes to the healthcare US system. In particular, nine percent of the US