Diabetes: Control - Slide 7

Diabetes Complications

• Diabetes is the leading cause of:

  • kidney failure

  • new cases of adult blindness

  • nontraumatic lower-limb amputations

• In adults with diabetes:

  • the risk of periodontal (gum) disease is two to three times higher

  • 60 to 70 % have mild to severe nervous system damage

NIDDK, National Diabetes Statistics 2007.
www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/statistics/

Note:

• Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, accounting for 44 percent of new cases in 2002. In 2002, close to 154,000 people with end-stage kidney disease due to diabetes were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant in the United States and Puerto Rico.

• Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged 20 to 74 years.

• Diabetes causes more than 60 percent of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations each year. In 2002, about 82,000 nontraumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.

• In adults with diabetes:

  • the risk of periodontal (gum) disease is two to three times higher
  • 60 to 70 % have mild to severe nervous system damage

Reference

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. National Diabetes Statistics, 2007. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 2008.

Revised November 2008