Complications

People with diabetes face a higher risk for dental health issues and gum disease.

This is often a direct result of higher blood sugars related to diabetes, whether that’s a long-term complication of diabetes that you’ve lived with for many years or a potential signal that you’ve developed prediabetes or diabetes.

People with diabetes are more likely to experience cavities and tooth decay, mouth ulcers, gum disease, dry mouth, bad breath, or the fungal infection of oral thrush.

However, you can help improve your dental health by maintaining dental hygiene habits — including daily brushing and flossing — and keeping blood sugars in the target range.

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People with diabetes are at greater risk for dental health and related complications.

Diabetic nephropathy is a serious complication of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. It's also called diabetic kidney disease. In the United States, about 1 in 3 people living with diabetes have diabetic nephropathy.

Diabetic nephropathy affects the kidneys' usual work of removing waste products and extra fluid from the body.

The best way to prevent or delay diabetic nephropathy is by living a healthy lifestyle and keeping diabetes and high blood pressure managed.

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Type 2 diabetes can lead to a variety of complications that affect your body from head to toe.

There are two types of diabetes complications: serious ones that build up over time called chronic complications and ones that can happen at any time called acute complications.  

Chronic complication

These are long-term problems that can develop gradually, and can lead to serious damage if they go unchecked and untreated

Acute complications 

These can happen at any time and may lead to chronic, or long-term, complications.

Over time, untreated diabetes can cause damage to your blood vessels, including vessels in your brain. Many people who have T2D don’t know that they have the condition, which may delay diagnosis and treatment.

Type 3 diabetes is a term used by some researchers to describe the theory that insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factor dysfunction in the brain may cause Alzheimer’s disease. More research needs to be done to understand the link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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Type 3 diabetes is the proposed name for a condition where type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease coexist. Learn about current research.