What are the chronic complications of diabetes?

Common chronic complications are:

Diabetic retinopathy:

Will make people vision loss, can not see things, serious or even blindness.

2. Diabetic nephropathy:

Patients will have significant foam urine, but also face the face, eyelids, lower extremities edema, if not treated, may develop into uremia.

3. Diabetic macrovascular disease:

Coronary heart disease, stroke, lower extremity vascular occlusion, all belong to diabetic macroangiopathy. Light lead to chest pain, dizziness, lower extremity pain, severe cases may endanger life.

Diabetic neuropathy:

The most common manifestations are limb numbness, acupuncture, sometimes feel wearing gloves, socks, and sometimes feel the ants crawling in the body.

In addition, some neuropathy can lead to arrhythmia, repeated vomiting, urine and uncontrolled.

5. Diabetic foot:

Diabetic foot in fact is the common consequence of macrovascular disease and neuropathy, the patient's legs and feet often repeatedly ulceration, infection, and even had amputation.

In addition to the above several common complications, diabetes can cause heart disease, skin lesions and other chronic complications.

Who is prone to chronic complications?

People with poor glycemic control are more likely to develop diabetic complications. In addition, the following conditions are also prone to chronic complications in diabetic patients:

Diabetes for a long time, more than five years; smoking; high blood pressure; hyperlipidemia; obesity.

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