Related Complications

The eye also gets affected by diabetes. One of the silent problems with diabetes is that the person with the disease usually feels fine, and there are no symptoms even when the glucose levels are in the 6 to 10 Mmol/l range. Therefore, it is easy to ignore diabetes. Eventually, there are symptoms, but often,…...

Many of you may have heard of “fatty liver.” Fatty liver disease (steatosis) means you have extra fat in your liver. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) often coexist with diabetes aggravating the progression of simple fatty liver to a more advanced form called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). There are two forms…...

Diabetic neuropathy is the progressive loss of nerve fiber function. Diabetic neuropathy is the most common diabetic complication, with almost 50 percent of T1DM and T2DM persons developing it, and about 7.5 percent of patients having it upon diagnosis. There are three types of nerves that come out of our spinal cord or brain: motor…...

Diabetic kidney disease is a potential complication of diabetes. Over long periods, insufficiently controlled blood sugar can lead to kidney damage. While it is impossible to reverse kidney damage, people can prevent or delay kidney disease. Diabetes is a condition that impairs the body’s ability to process blood sugar. It is also the leading cause of kidney disease, which some may…...

Diabetic neuropathy Do you know what diabetic neuropathy means? If you have diabetes, this is one of the common complications that face people with diabetes, which you need to know. When you hear of neuropathy, think of damage to the nerves. Diabetic neuropathy is a condition where one loses a sense of pain and fails…...