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What can happen if I have diabetes?
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English English Hmong Type 2 Diabetes is a disease that results in high blood sugars. It commonly affects those who are overweight or obese.
Diabetes is linked to genetics (this means things you inherit from your parents), low activity, excess body weight, and a poor diet. Diabetes affects the muscle, liver and fat cells in your body.
These cells can become resistant to insulin. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas, an organ in your body.
The pancreas is responsible for sugar control, along with your liver and other parts of your body. The pancreas makes insulin. Without insulin, cells cannot process the sugar in your body very well. This causes high blood sugars.
In later stages, the pancreas can stop making insulin.
Diabetes can damage your blood vessels, which carry blood to the organs in your body.
This can lead to heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage, or amputation of the toes or legs.
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How can organ damage be prevented?
Diabetics must take medication or pills (given by a doctor) on a regular basis. By keeping their sugars controlled, they can prevent the long-term effects of diabetes.
If you know someone with diabetes, encourage them to take their medicine regularly as recommended by their doctor. Medication, along with a healthy diet and regular exercise, can help to control blood sugars. It can also delay or prevent organ damage caused by diabetes.
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