It fully does. Hypo=low, hyper=high. NIDDM/type 2 happens when either pancreatic beta cells stop producing enough insulin, or insulin receptors are desensitize by down regulation, but usually a combo of both. So a little auger is allowed into the cells, allowing blood sugar to steadily rise. This is so steady that the body adapts, and it's not caught ulualy until its astronomically high. This is like draino to your blood vessels and kidneys. The symptoms associated with sky high BGl are usually what brings the patient to the Dr. Hypo is obviously possible, and immediately life threatening. But with type 2 wouldn't be typical unless you were in treatment, and have been sick/not eating/overworked. In Gmos case, it would go up even with heavy exercise, just slower. That's not to say it couldnt happen, but would be atypical of type 2. Real hypoglycemia usually happens when IDDM/type 1/insulin dependent takes their slin, and for whatever reason there's no glucose taken in. This is 99% of 911 calls for hypoglycemia. To simplify, diabetes is a lack of insulin or ability to utilize it. Insulin shuttles glucose into the cells. Without it cells starve, BGL rises, not lowers. By definition, insulins main presentation is chronicly elevate blood glucose levels. I hope that answers it
