What are common diabetes complications?

Common: Poor healing, poor circulation, reduced kidney function, foot problems, vision problems and eye disease, premature heart and vascular disease. Significant and potentially life threatening problems can occur with excessively high and excessively low blood sugar levels.

Many complications: Diabetic patient are at greater risk for complications such as extreme low or high blood sugar, shock, coma, cardiovascular disease (high blood pressure, poor circulation), nerve damage (neuropathy- resulting in poor sensation), kidney damage (nephropathy - poor kidney function), and eye damage (retinopathy- resulting in poor vision). There are different symptoms for each complication.

Several: Common complications of diabetes include changes in sensation in your feet and legs which can lead to pain, blindness, heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, and poor wound healing possibly leading to infection and amputation.