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What can one expect if they do not manage their diabetes?
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What can one expect if they do not manage their diabetes?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the potential dangers to misdiagnosed or poorly managed diabetes.

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So, I think that's a huge area of concern. If people don't have either have a correct diagnosis, they have delayed diagnosis, and they get mislabeled with the wrong form of diabetes, then they can develop complications, from which we mean can develop macrovascular essentially what that means you at risk of a stroke and a heart attack, or any major events like an amputation or impairment of the blood supply of the legs, or you can have microvascular complications where you can kidneys become leakier, where you have protein in the kidneys, or in the urine, we have issues with your eyesight, or develop neuropathy. So your sensations in the feet or in the legs can become impaired. That's because of the toxic effect of the glucose being around.

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