Millions of Russians may be living with diabetes and not know it. Experts remind that being overweight and unhealthy lifestyle - the main reasons for the formation of Type II diabetes.
Diabetes first type It can not be overlooked, because it requires from the patient regular intake of insulin. Skip injection can lead to diabetic coma and even death. And here Type II diabetes , According to doctors, can pass unnoticed for the patient for months or even years.
Charitable Association Diabetes UK believes that in the UK the number of people who do not know about her Diabetes Type It may be a million people. In Russia, they are much more than a purely arithmetic. In diabetes, the body fails to produce insulin, a hormone that is not doing its job.
This is due to the fact that the fat stores in the abdomen, as experts believe, affect the production of a protein that prevents excess insulin affect blood sugar levels.
Almost half of the cases Type II diabetes doctors detect the disease even after it leads to serious complications like nerve pain and visual disturbances. Meanwhile, the classic symptoms of diabetes (excessive thirst, frequent urination), and thus can not be shown.
Only in the UK alone each week doctors amputated limbs in 100 patients with diabetes from complications of the disease. Unless Type II diabetes Left untreated, it will cause damage to the nerves in the feet (diabetic neuropathy). Also amputations, diabetes can also cause heart disease, strokes, kidney failure and blindness.
Therefore, people belonging to high-risk groups, should be screened regularly by doctors-endocrinologists. Risk factors are: waist volume of more than 80 cm for women and 90 cm for men, overweight, close relatives with diabetes. But the classic symptoms Type II diabetes : Frequent urination (especially at night), excessive thirst, high fatigue, unexplained weight loss, itching in the genital area, slow healing of wounds, blurred in vision.
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