Diabetes a disease of the pancreas

Diabetes is a disease of the pancreas that effects the entire body, those above the thirty-five years of age are advised to check their blood glucose level annually even if they do not have any symptoms of diabetes as diabetetes can set in as far back as ten years before the symptoms appear. A senior consultant endocrinologist from Universiti Sains Malaysia advised the people not to wait until symptoms set in by then it will be to late.

He also stress out that diabeties is the six leading death in the world and forty percentage of heart disease people are due to diabetes. Diabetes also cause kidney failure, blindnessin adults and amputation, while 60% to 70% of patients suffered nerve damage. It is not a mild disease but a dangerous and deadly one if early care is not taken into consideration.