People suffering from diabetes, die early.
This truth, which managed to obtain clinical evidence in the course of dozens of studies. But how many years it takes You have diabetes? This question researchers have only recently.
The American edition of HealthDay Reporter called the exact number of years of life, which robs patients of diabetes. Experts managed to calculate given the premorbid condition of the patient, confounding factors, heredity, and other nuances, how many years will be shorter than the life of such a patient when insufficient or not regular treatment.
The life of patients with diabetes is shorter by 13 years
So, it is estimated that diabetes mellitus 1st and 2nd type will reduce the life expectancy of 50-year-old men and women, on average, for 13 years. In other words, in the case of the absence of diabetes, each of these people would have lived 13 years longer.
Mainly this figure due to the large number of serious complications associated with diabetes, the appearance of which is often only a matter of time.
Most often shortens the life of patients with diabetic complications associated with microangiopathy — damage to smaller blood vessels and, as a consequence of the disruption of the microcirculation in almost all organs and systems of the body.
It raises a number of serious consequences for the person with diabetes, who for several years decompensated diabetes are able to turn it to disabled:
– retinopathy — damage to the retina and impaired vision including blindness;
– trophic ulcer — healing ulcers, often on the lower extremities;
– neuropathy — disturbance of sensitivity of receptors to the extremities, impaired innervation, tissues, and nutrition in them.
– “diabetic foot” — atrophic processes that affect the smaller blood vessels and nerve endings. Often leads to gangrene and subsequent amputation of the affected area of the limb.
kidney patient, the patient with diabetes gradually lose their ability to filter. The degree of compensation or decompensation of diabetes determines how quickly or slowly to proceed the process.
What to do to live longer?
Does everything said above, that the diagnosis “diabetes” — is the verdict? Fortunately, no. A modern approach to the treatment of diabetes provides one important condition is the maintenance of diabetes in the compensation stage. What does it mean?
Compensated diabetes mellitus is:
– your blood sugar level is constantly maintained within the normal range;
– your level of ketone bodies continuously in norm;
– you are constantly, regularly, adhere to doctor’s recommendations and regularly take drugs that improve circulation in your tissues and counteract the other, associated with diabetes, the trouble.
To follow the doctor’s recommendations, do not skip the medication, not to break the diet — simple, but the most important ways to leave a figure is called a researchers somewhere behind, to avoid decompensation of diabetes, worsening your condition and complications.
