The diagnosis "diabetes" demands a lot from the patient - lifestyle and daily routine need to be changed, often enough the affected person needs to say good-bye to beloved habits. This change of lifestyle also partially affects the family, leisure life and the job.
According to recent studies, diabetes can cause early deafness. As if diabetes mellitus alone wouldn't be bad enough, diabetics have to struggle with lots of consequential diseases. So the shock won't be too big when another one joins the list.
Diabetes is an important risk factor for the development of many diseases. The reason for that are the many manifestations of the blood glucose disease in the various body organs and the development of consequential diseases connected herewith.
The metabolic disease diabetes is one of today’s most common chronic diseases. Especially in the industrialized countries the number of type-2 diabetics is increasing due to obesity resulting from over-feeding. Diabetes mellitus means "honey-sweet flow" and was already mentioned first 100 AD. Aretaios speaks of it as a "strange disease".
