Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition
With type 2 diabetes, your body either resists the effects of insulin or doesn't produce enough insulin to maintain normal glucose levels.
Type 2 diabetes used to be known as adult-onset diabetes, but today more children are being diagnosed with the disorder, probably due to the rise in childhood obesity.
Signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes often develop slowly. In fact, you can have type 2 diabetes for years and not know it.
Look forthese symptoms:
- Increased thirst
- Frequent urination
- Increased hunger
- Unintended weight loss
- Fatigue
- Blurred vision
- Slow-healing sores
- Frequent infections
- Areas of darkened skin, usually in the armpits and neck
Factors that may increase your risk of type 2 diabetes include: overweight, inactivity, family history, age (after 45), prediabetes, gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy), polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Type 2 diabetes can be easy to ignore, especially in the early stages when you're feeling fine. But diabetes affects many major organs, including your heart, blood vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys.
The disease is not curable, but it is manageable.
Healthy lifestyle choices can help prevent type 2 diabetes, and that's true even if you have diabetes in your family.
Source:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20351193
