Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) affects approximately 11.3% of the US population or an estimated 28.7 million people. In contrast, prediabetes affects approximately 96 million American adults, which is more than one in three; of these, about 80% are unaware that they are prediabetic. These basic and straightforward statistics make it abundantly clear just how much of a health problem diabetes is.
When you consider the known complications of diabetes, the seriousness of the problem becomes more apparent, and it is a severe problem indeed when you consider what those diabetic complications are.
The following is an incomplete list of diabetic complications, which seems to grow with the increasing length of the disease.
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