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Long-Term Complications
The common long-term complications of diabetes are kidney disease, eye disease and nerve disease and these may be a result of years of high blood glucose levels. Most long-term complication take 10 or more years to develop but consider that most people with type 2 diabetes often have it for 5 or more years before being diagnosed. Often the long-term complication itself rather than the high glucose levels is the clue that leads doctors to diagnose diabetes.
Your Kidneys
Your kidneys remove harmful chemicals from your body. Think of the kidneys like a filter that your blood passes through. The normal contents of your blood is filtered back into your bloodstream while the waste is trapped and sent out in your urine.Kidneys also regulate the salt and water contents of your body.
When kidney failure occures you must either use artifical means such as dialysis to cleanse your blood and control the salt and water or receive a transplant of a new kidney.
The incidence of kidney failure is only 5% among type 2 diabetics as compared to 30% among type 1 diabetics. Although, the total number of people with kidney disease is about the same among both types because type 2 is more common.
