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Diabetes is not an autoimmune disease. It is a failure by the pancreas (more specifically, the Isles of Langerhans, which are in the pancreas) to produce sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin, which then leads to difficulty in metabolizing sugar, and a whole range of problems resulting from that.

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