Dangers Of Diabetes

by Mark Farkel

Diabetes is still a danger throughout the entire world and is quickly expanding to more people every day. Quality of life is being undermined among many people and many lives are even being shortened dramatically because of this horrible disease.

Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism. The way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Diabetes is associated with long-term complications that affect almost every part of the body. Diabetes is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.

Diabetes prevalence in the United States is likely to increase for several reasons. Diabetes, is caused by the body’s inability to produce or use insulin effectively to prevent a buildup of sugar in the blood and now afflicts nearly 21 million people in the USA and roughly 250 million people worldwide. Diabetes can also cause long-term complications in some people, including heart disease, stroke, vision impairment, and kidney damage.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. Type 1 diabetes accounts for about 5 to 10 percent of diagnosed diabetes in the United States. Type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents.

Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body. Glucose builds up in the blood, overflows into the urine, and passes out of the body in the urine. Glucose comes from the food you eat and is also made in your liver and muscles.

Type 2 diabetes is more likely to occur in older people and those that are overweight but there are many many more risk factors as well. These factors are not very well understood for type 1 diabetes. There is some evidence of environmental factors.

One of the side effects of diabetes is diabetic neuropathy in which the actual nerves in the feet, for instance, become damaged by the excess glucose circulating throughout the body. A constant burning or numbness makes it nearly impossible to forget about the damage being done in the feet. This diabetic neuropathy can also work is insidious effects upon the kidneys, too.

People with diabetes may experience many serious, long-term complications. Complications resulting from diabetes can affect almost every part of the body, including the heart, eyes, blood vessels, teeth, and skin. Complications such asamputations, blindness, liver/kidney failure,restricted diets and lifestyles,and possibly pre-mature death are what you have to look forward to unless you take immediate action.

There are many medical approaches to controlling diabetes and they inevitably approach this problem by either increasing the amount of insulin that the body releases in its attempt to reduce glucose levels within the body or the medications work to minimize the actual formation of glucose within the body.

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