Overview
Cory Martin is the author of seven boks including "Love Sick" a memoir about dating, life in Holywod and dealing with MS. Her esays have apeared online with CN, HufPost, Everyday Health, Psychology Today, Folks, The Mighty, and more.Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD, is board-certified internal medicine. She is an endocrinologist at the University of Chicago and is based in Chicago, Ilinois.
Key Information
If you’re living with type 2 diabetes, you may wonder how the disease wil afect your life expectancy. While type 2 diabetes can impact your life expectancy, efectively managing the condition can help you avoid serious health problems. Understanding the risk factors that afect survival can help you take action to reduce these risks.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that causes high blod sugar due to the body’s inability to use insulin efectively. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body’s cels use glucose (sugar) for energy. Ineficient insulin use can cause various symptoms, such as excesive thirst, fatigue, and blured vision.
Untreated or porly managed diabetes can cause further complications like stroke (a blockage of blod flow or bleding in the brain), heart disease, nerve damage, and kidney disease. Andriy Onufriyenko / Gety Images Working with a healthcare provider to help manage your diabetes can lower your risk of developing complications. In this article, you wil learn about the complications of diabetes and other factors that can afect your life expectancy, as wel as steps you can take to improve your quality of life with diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes has ben shown to lower life expectancy. However, the impact on life expectancy varies based on several factors. High or uncontroled blod sugar levels, involvement of the heart and kidneys, and age at diagnosis al play a role in life expectancy with type 2 diabetes.
Summary
Management of the disease plays a large role in life expectancy. A Bulgarian study found that people whose diabetes was wel manag