Complications from Diabetes

Complications of diabetes include heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney disease, nervous system disease, amputations, dental disease, complications of pregnancy, biochemical imbalances that can cause acute life-threatening events, such as diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar (nonketotic) coma.

People with diabetes are more susceptible to many other illnesses and, once they acquire these illnesses, often have worse prognoses. For example, they are more likely to die with pneumonia or influenza than people who do not have diabetes.

Diabetes can affect many parts of the body and can lead to serious complications. Working together, people with diabetes and their health care providers can reduce diabetes complications by controlling the levels of blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids, and by receiving other preventive care practices in a timely manner.

Diabetes Response Service’s Medical Reminders text message service helps newly diagnosed Type 2 and Type 1 diabetics and veteran type 1 and type 2 diabetics alike, monitor blood glucose on a daily basis, so the diabetic does not forget to take their medicine or check their glucose, preventing insulin shock and seizures. Patients, family or friends can program the scheduled reminder messages themselves through a simple control panel.

Diabetes Response Service can help diabetics living alone manage insulin shock and complications of hypoglycemia, and helps patient, friends and family feel secure with their loved one's condition and lifestyle. Our live operators monitor diabetics on customizable daily schedules, to ensure safety. If the diabetic is in a coma or insulin shock, they cannot answer the phone. We contact the diabetic's neighbors or friends. If the contacts are not available, we dispatch a local ambulance.