23/10/2020
Long-term complications of diabetes develop gradually. The longer you have diabetes — and the less controlled your blood sugar — the higher the risk of complications. Eventually, diabetes complications may be disabling or even life-threatening. Possible complications include:
✔️𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲
Diabetes dramatically increases the risk of various cardiovascular problems, including coronary artery disease with chest pain (angina), heart attack, stroke and narrowing of arteries (atherosclerosis). If you have diabetes, you're more likely to have heart disease or stroke.
✔️𝗡𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 (neuropathy)
Excess sugar can injure the walls of the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that nourish your nerves, especially in your legs. This can cause tingling, numbness, burning or pain that usually begins at the tips of the toes or fingers and gradually spreads upward.
Left untreated, you could lose all sense of feeling in the affected limbs. Damage to the nerves related to digestion can cause problems with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation. For men, it may lead to erectile dysfunction.
✔️𝗞𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 (nephropathy)
The kidneys contain millions of tiny blood vessel clusters (glomeruli) that filter waste from your blood. Diabetes can damage this delicate filtering system. Severe damage can lead to kidney failure or irreversible end-stage kidney disease, which may require dialysis or a kidney transplant.
✔️𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 (retinopathy).
Diabetes can damage the blood vessels of the retina (diabetic retinopathy), potentially leading to blindness. Diabetes also increases the risk of other serious vision conditions, such as cataracts and glaucoma.
✔️𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲
Nerve damage in the feet or poor blood flow to the feet increases the risk of various foot complications. Left untreated, cuts and blisters can develop serious infections, which often heal poorly. These infections may ultimately require toe, foot or leg amputation.
✔️𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Diabetes may leave you more susceptible to skin problems, including bacterial and fungal infections.
✔️𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
Hearing problems are more common in people with diabetes.
✔️𝗔𝗹𝘇𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲
Type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease. The poorer your blood sugar control, the greater the risk appears to be. Although there are theories as to how these disorders might be connected, none has yet been proved.
Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/.../symptoms-causes/syc-20371444