Risks

Diabetes can affect many parts of the body and can lead to serious complications such as blindness, kidney damage, and lower-limb amputations. Working together, people with diabetes and their health care providers can reduce the occurrence of these and other diabetes complications by controlling the levels of blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids and by receiving other preventive care practices in a timely manner.

Who is in higher risk of developing diabetes Type 1?

• Brothers or sisters of diabetics Type 1.

• Children of parents with diabetes Type 1.

Who is in higher risk of developing diabetes Type 2?

• People over 45 years of age.

• People with a diabetes' family history

• Overweight people

• People with low levels of HDL cholesterol or high triglycerides or high blood pressure.

• Women that had gestational diabetes or whose children were 9 or more pounds at birth.