Diabetes is often called "chronic disease", but it is also called "silent killer" and I believe it is a very accurate description. There are several main reasons for this:
Diabetes is often not detected for a very long time
In the United States alone, 5.7 million people suffer from diabetes, and it is estimated that some people do not know it. An estimated 50 million people have pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes mellitus remains at 1 / 10th of the time diagnosed as diabetes, and medical experts do not necessarily agree with cut-off points. Many people with pre - diabetes do not know that they are on the verge of getting into diabetes. This information comes from the CDC that represents the "Disease Control and Prevention Center" which is a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. This information is accurate information because it can be derived from several national medical databases.
Even those who know that they are diabetic are not always aware of how serious they are
Ignorance is one of the biggest dangers of diabetes. Especially for diabetic patients who do not take insulin. They often do not know how serious they have to get ill. Some of them think they can drink one or two tablets daily, others do not have to worry after that. Indeed, many families should have great dissatisfaction to see that diabetes lovers need to take extra pills before drinking sugar. Nothing can be far from the truth, but trying to persuade some diabetic patients with this is pretty difficult.
Diabetic patients die more from disease complications than diseases themselves
Diabetes is a fundamental metabolic disorder affecting all systems in your body. Therefore, diabetic patients are suffering from many complications of this disease and they actually die from one or more of these in general. Pancreatic cancer may lead to death from pancreatic cancer. If you develop congestive heart failure you will probably die of it. Diabetes does not function exactly like this. You die not from diabetes, but from complications of the disease. In the case of diabetes, heart disease, severe infections, kidney disease, or a combination thereof may result in death, but diabetes is not direct. However, it was your diabetes that directly caused and / or exacerbated these complications. A death certificate is not necessarily called diabetes, even if it is a fundamental cause of death. Therefore, diabetes is a silent killer.
