Complications

Managing your diabetes successfully is one of your best tickets to good health now and in the future. Maintaining your weight and normal or near-normal blood glucose levels are the best ways to reduce your risk for developing these health problems.

Long-term complications are health problems that can occur in a person who has had diabetes for a number of years. Long-term complications occur mainly because of damage to blood vessels. The reason for this kind of damage is not completely understood, but it's thought that ab­normally elevated blood glucose plays an important role

The problems caused by blood vessel damage are related to the size of the vessel and the area of the body in which the problem develops. Eye, kidney, and nerve problems are related to damage to the small blood vessels-called microvascular disease. Heart, feet, and brain complications are caused by damage to the large blood vessels, or macrovascular disease.

Other factors such as high blood fat levels and high blood pressure may contribute to complications. And heredity may also play a part in determining who gets com­plications and who doesn't.

Some of the more common complications of type 2 diabetes are coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, nerve damage, periph­eral vascular disease, retinopathy, and kidney damage. In this section, you will find information about more than twenty medical complications associated with diabetes.

Complications:


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