Complications That Arise If Diabetes Is Left Untreated

Heart And Kidney Damage

Diabetes greatly increases the risk of developing both heart and kidney damage. Diabetic patients have a much higher risk of being diagnosed with a variety of cardiovascular problems, including chest pain, coronary artery disease, stroke, narrowing of the arteries, and heart attacks. Heart disease and strokes are more common in diabetes patients than in otherwise healthy individuals

The kidneys are meant to filter the waste out of the blood through their millions of blood vessel clusters, but diabetes causes damage to the filtering system. In severe cases, the damage might cause a patient to go into kidney failure or experience an irreversible case of end-stage kidney disease. This might require consistent dialysis or possibly a kidney transplant.

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