Friday, October 2, 2009

Critical Chronic Complications Attributed To Diabetes

By Jason Myers

There are various diabetes complications which are all related to some blood vessel diseases, generally categorized as small vessel types of diseases. These fall under chronic chronic complications. Generally, they involve the nerves, eyes and the kidneys, and are classified as the micro-vascular diseases. They also involve the large vessel types of diseases known as macro vascular forms of diseases.

Eye complication emerges as one type of chronic complication. The major one is called diabetic retinopathy. This is a complication which occurs in many patients who have suffered from diabetes for at least five years.

The affected tiny blood vessels located at the rear end of the eye cause blood leakage. Diseases within the respective blood vessels cause the small aneurysms formation and brittle blood vessels which are weak in nature.

Kidney damage is also another chronic diabetes complication and it is mostly referred to as diabetic nephropathy. The start of kidney diseases leads to a progression of the condition which later affect the extremities. In the initial stages, it occurs when small blood vessels trigger the protein leakage in the urine, later on making the kidneys lose their natural ability of cleansing and filtering blood. Given the kidney's malfunctionality, there is toxicity and this leads to an urgent need for dialysis which is automated through a machine.

Nerve damage is also one of the major chronic complications that comess about when one has diabetes. It is usually termed as diabetic neuropathy. Blood to the respective nerves is quite limited leaving the nerves without adequate blood flow, thus inflicting damage. Consequently, this leads to burning, numbness and soreness of the human feet and other lower extremities. That is when the loss of sensation in the human feet develops and severely impacts on body functioning. - 14130

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