Useful link with long very detailed article about diabetes

[Don Stoll]

Hi all
Browsing the web and came across this article. It is very long and detailed with medical jargon. If you have some spare time or or bored check it out:
www.emedmd.com/content/diabetes-mellitus
Hope it is useful and not too boring!

 

[trophywench]

I disagree with something in the first bit - there are many people who have lived full and otherwise healthy lives whilst they simultaneously have had diabetes with no complications for over 70 years. It's more often something else that kills us all - rarely diabetes itself. I don't think one can say as a fact that 'it' shortens lives. Of course if it's either mistreated, or is undiagnosed for too long - then any complications WILL happen sooner.

Bit like Prostate Cancer. Enough chaps die of it - undiagnosed until the 11th hour by which time it's too late. However many many more blokes die of unknown reason, so they do a post-mortem and they had a stroke or something which carried them off. But when they carry on dissecting him - discover he also had prostate cancer. So all the 'other' mortalities have died WITH it - not OF it.