16^th European Diabetes and Endocrinology Congress

Diabetes and Associated Diseases

Diabetes intensifies the danger of long-term complications. Diabetes increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as diabetic cardiomyopathy. The chief complications of diabetes due to injury in small blood vessels comprise damage to the eyes, kidneys, and nerves. Damage to the eyes is known as diabetic retinopathy which is triggered by damage to the blood vessels in the retina of the eye leading to diabetic eye complications. Damage to the kidneys, known as diabetic nephropathy, can pave the way to tissue damaging, urine protein damage, and eventually dibetic nephropathy disease. Diabetes is one of the main cause of kidney failure. At least two third of the people with diabetes may have signs of onset of kidney problems at early stage. Damage to the nerves of the body, known as diabetic neuropathy, is the most common complication of diabetes.