Type 2 diabetes definition

Type 2 diabetes means a metabolic disorder resulting from a relative deficiency of insulin secretion insufficient to prevent high blood glucose levels that is due initially to tissue resistance to insulin action but later to beta cell failure as well. APPENDIX A AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARTER Policy Statement It is the policy of Transition Therapeutics Inc. (the “Corporation”) to establish and maintain an audit committee (the “Audit Committee”), composed entirely of independent directors, to assist the Board of Directors (the “Board”) in carrying out its oversight responsibility for the Corporation’s internal controls, financial reporting and risk management processes. The Audit Committee will be provided with resources commensurate with the duties and responsibilities assigned to it by the Board including administrative support. If determined necessary by the Audit Committee, it will have the discretion to institute investigations of improprieties, or suspected improprieties within the scope of its responsibilities, including the standing authority to retain experts, and with the approval of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, special counsel. Composition of the Committee

Type 2 diabetes means non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus as diagnosed according to criteria published in the Report of the Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (Diabetes Care, Vol. 24, Supp. 1, January 2001) whereby fasting plasma glucose level is greater than or equal to 126 milligrams per deciliter.

Examples of Type 2 diabetes in a sentence

• Education Code 25.001(a), 48.003The principal of each district school shall ensure that each student admitted to that school has complied with requirements for screen- ing of special senses and communication disorders, spinal screen- ing, and a risk assessment for Type 2 diabetes, or has submitted an affidavit of exemption.

• Type 2 diabetes mellitus after gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Covered Benefits are provided if you have insulin dependent (Type I) diabetes, non-insulin dependent (Type 2) diabetes, and elevated blood glucose levels induced by pregnancy (gestational diabetes).

• Type 2 diabetes incidence and socio-economic position: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Subject at all times to the right of removal as provided in Section 5.3, any officer may resign at any time by giving notice in writing or by electronic communication to the board of directors, the chief executive officer, the president or the secretary.

• If the type of diabetes mellitus is not documented in the medical record the default is E11.-, Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

• International Diabetes Federation: a consensus on Type 2 diabetes prevention.

• Estimating the current and future costs of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in the UK, including direct health costs and indirect societal and productivity costs.

• The prevalence of co-morbid depression in adults with Type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• If the documentation in a medical record does not indicate the type of diabetes but does indicate that the patient uses insulin, code E11-, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, should be assigned.