subject: Diabetes And Its Complications [print this page] Diabetes has different hidden dangers that begin even before diagnosis. It continues to worsen if certain steps are not taken to prevent the occurrence if these complications. As a matter of fact, these complications are the true killers in terms of diabetes.
Based on statistics, almost 18 million Americans have type 1 and type 2 diabetes. A lot of people do not know the dangers that this disease can cause. They do not know the different kinds of complications that this disease can give them. According to studies, almost all of the people with diabetes lives 10 years shorter than people without the disease.
The complications caused by diabetes are already considered as a chronic medical condition. It will soon affect the body when diabetes occurred. According to the medical economy, the complications that are caused by diabetes are due to Advanced Glycation End Products. It means that the excess sugar are literally saturating inside the cells of the body. Some of the complications caused by AGE are blindness, loss of feeling in the hands and feet, vascular diseases, kidney diseases, coronary artery disease, retinopathy and peripheral neuropathy.
During its early stages, diabetes does not show any symptoms. The good thing is symptoms can be identified through a routine medical exam. There is a way to identify the symptoms but a lot of people still live their lives without knowing about the disease. These complications occur when the disease is not identified immediately. After several years, different complications caused by diabetes will start to occur. The excess sugar that was stored inside your body for many years will trigger these complications. Based on statistics, almost five million people in the world do not know that they have diabetes. These people will continue their lives without knowing the danger that will come to them.
The different complications of diabetes will start to occur when the person with diabetes will not diagnose it earlier and they will not make certain steps to prevent it. A lot of professional doctors said that there is a certain formula on the development of these complications. According to professional doctors, diabetes + time = diabetes complications. This will only indicate that the complications caused by diabetes increases as time passes by. It will also increase if people will not make certain steps to counter it. It also means that a person can have two or more complications at the same time.
The body cannot bear the frequent rise and fall of your sugar. The excess sugar in the body can destroy the different arteries, veins, nerves and capillaries in the body. The people that can control the rise and fall of their blood sugar and the people who are living healthy can prevent the immediate occurrence of these complications.
