Overview of Clinical Complications of Diabetes
Heart disease, high blood pressure, and kidney disease are some of the complications of diabetes.

People with Diabetes Must Take Care from Head to Toe
For people with diabetes, eyes and feet can be potential trouble spots. You should have an eye exam and a foot exam every year.

Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Eye Problems
Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness in American adults. It is caused by changes in the blood vessels of the retina.

Protecting Your Vision
Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes-related eye disease that can lead to vision loss. But you can take steps to help save your sight.

Essential Eye Care for Diabetes
If you have diabetes, you can take steps to reduce your risk for vision loss or blindness.

Diabetic Foot Problems
Diabetes can damage the nerves in your feet, as well as lead to blood vessel disease. These conditions make it more difficult to notice when you injure your foot or develop a sore.

Keep Your Feet Happy
Taking good care of your feet is an important part of living with diabetes. With attention, you can help prevent more serious foot problems.

Summer Foot Care for Diabetes
Here are suggestions that can help you to enjoy the summer months while protecting your feet.

Special Foot Care for Diabetes
It's not high blood sugar, heart disease, or stroke that most often puts people with diabetes in the hospital. It's their feet.

Diabetic Nephropathy (Kidney Disease)
Nephropathy is the deterioration of the kidneys. The final stage of nephropathy is called end-stage renal disease, or ESRD.

Understanding Kidney Disease
Too often, diabetes leads to kidney disease. But it doesn’t have to. When kidney problems are caught early, you can take steps to prevent more serious kidney disease.

The Warning Signs of Kidney Disease
Kidney disease is a stealth illness. It may often be silent for many years -- until it has reached an advanced stage.

Diabetes and Heart Disease
Diabetes affects the cardiovascular system, but many problems aren't apparent until a person has a heart attack or stroke.

Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
If you have diabetes, you are twice as likely to have high blood pressure. Untreated, high blood pressure can raise your risk for heart disease.

Diabetes and Heart Disease
Most of us know that diabetes can lead to severe complications, such as blindness, kidney disease and amputations. But did you know that diabetes also greatly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease?

The Diabetes-Heart Disease Connection
Once you know the risk to your heart health, you can start focusing on something positive: You can take steps right now to keep your heart pumping soundly and your blood flowing smoothly.

Diabetic Neuropathy (Nerve Problems)
The risk of developing nerve damage, or neuropathy, increases the longer a person has diabetes. About half of people with diabetes have some form of neuropathy.

Discovering Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy
Roughly 18.2 million Americans deal with the challenges of diabetes every day. A percentage also face a challenge called diabetic autonomic neuropathy and never know it until the complication becomes severe. Diabetic autonomic neuropathy is a sub-group of diabetic neuropathy, a group of nerve diseases affecting the peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord.

Autonomic Neuropathy
If you have diabetes, controlling your blood glucose, or blood sugar, is important to help you feel well on a daily basis. It’s also vital to help prevent potentially serious complications such as nerve damage, or neuropathy.

Understanding Gastroparesis
Gastroparesis is a stomach disorder that can affect people with diabetes. It occurs when nerve damage keeps the stomach from emptying normally.

How Can Diabetes Affect Bladder Control?
Over time, diabetes can damage the nerves that control the bladder. In both men and women, this can lead to overactive bladder.

Diabetic Skin Troubles
About one-third of people with diabetes get a skin problem sooner or later. Fortunately, most problems can be prevented or easily treated.

Online Resources - Otolaryngology
List of online resources to find additional information on ear, nose, and throat disorders

Diabetes and Sexual Intimacy
Damage to the nerves or blood vessels caused by diabetes can interfere with sexual function.

Diabetics Need to Discuss Sensitive Topics
Diabetes affects every part of your life, and it can create problems that aren’t easy to talk about with your health care provider.