How to Avoid Diabetic Complications
Long term diabetic complications are the result of one or more parts of your body becoming damaged as a result of diabetes. Long term complications need not be inevitable and research indicates that it is possible to minimise complications or avoid or prevent them altogether.
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The most common long term complications of diabetes include:
- Heart disease - known as cardiovascular disease
- Kidney damage - known as nephropathy
- Eye damage - known as retinopathy
- Nerve damage - known as neuropathy
- Stroke
- Limb amputations - particularly lower leg amputations
How can I prevent these complications?
On our complications pages we include statistics about how common complications are. Some of the figures may appear worryingly high.
However, the truth is that there are a lot of people who have, for one reason or another, not had the education needed to get their diabetes under control.