This document discusses diabetes, including risk factors for developing diabetes, common symptoms of diabetes, and potential health complications from diabetes. It notes that diabetes risk factors include family history, lack of exercise, poor diet, excess weight, age over 45, and certain cholesterol or blood pressure levels. Common symptoms are blurred vision, fatigue, frequent infections and increased thirst and urination. Long-term complications can impact the eyes, feet, skin, heart, blood vessels, and nerves. Managing diabetes requires increased medical costs, glucose monitoring, dietary changes and medications.

1. Melissa Davis
Midwestern University

3. You Eat Food
Your body breaks it
down into glucose
Glucose in your
blood cause insulin
to be made
Insulin unlocks
cellular gates
Glucose leaves
blood & enters cells
to give you energy

4. Insulin is released from your
pancreas to unlock the
gates in your muscles to
allow glucose to enter.

5. *Family history
*Low activity level
*Poor diet
*Excess body weight (especially around the waist)
*Age greater than 45 years
*HDL cholesterol of less than 35 mg/dL
or triglyceride level of greater than 250 mg/dL
*High blood pressure
*History of gestational diabetes
*Previously identified impaired glucose tolerance by
your doctor
*Race/ethnicity (African Americans, Hispanic
Americans, and Native Americans all have high rates of
diabetes)

6. *Blurred vision
*Erectile dysfunction
*Fatigue
*Frequent or slow-healing infections
*Increased appetite
*Increased thirst
*Increased urination

7. *Eyes
*Vision changes or
blindness
*Foot and Skin Problems
*Ulcers that may lead to
amputation
*Heart and Blood Vessels
*Risk of Heart Attack
*Stroke
*High Blood Pressure
*Nerves
*Pain and Numbness

8. *
*Increased Medical Cost
*2.3x higher
*Constant Glucose Monitoring
*Change in Diet
*Medications

9. myhealthadvisor.diabetes.org