After 10 years with diabetes, 40% of patients with complications occur

Blindness, amputations ... ... these terrible disability, died of complications of diabetes are closely related. Diabetes superficial, but very serious harm. Studies have shown that the incidence of diabetes after 10 years, 30% -40% of patients with at least a complication occurs. Therefore, be sure to guard against "the scourge of diabetes."

Diabetes is due to insulin secretion and (or) the role of defects in glucose-induced increase in metabolic diseases characterized. As long as blood sugar control, diabetes can be life-long ill patients survive. However, the most horrible thing is that the incidence of complications of diabetes is extremely high morbidity and mortality rates are very high. Complications of diabetes at two major categories of acute and chronic. Among them, acute complications, including diabetic ketoacidosis, diabetes, such as lactic acidosis; chronic complications including diabetic retinopathy and blindness, diabetes, renal disease (leading to severe renal failure), diabetic foot (leading to serious amputation), large vascular disease (leading to severe myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular disease) and so on.

Clinical statistics show that 40% -50% of diabetic patients after 10 years in the incidence of retinopathy occurred; about 2% of patients after 15 years in the incidence of total blindness; 5% -10% of patients with the disease 20 years after the end of the deteriorating into end-stage renal disease.