The fact is that type 2 diabetes is almost completely preventable.
Doctor's say eat less, eat better and exercise.
Your diabetes risk can be reduced or controlled by diet in some cases.
This will largely depend on your body's ability to still make insulin and to be able to use it correctly.
Only your doctor will be able to tell you exactly, and blood tests will be needed to do this.
Without careful handling and monitoring, complications from diabetes could include many major strokes like heart attack, diabetic coma etc.
Diabetes begins to destroy you by damaging the arteries.
When diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, and/or increased levels of cholesterol (especially low-density lipoprotein, or LDL cholesterol) damage the inner lining of the arteries, a plaque begins to form.
After damage has occurred, fat begins to accumulate within a part of the artery wall called the intima.
In the intima, fat is protected from the chemicals in the blood that prevent changes in the fat because they can't reach the fat, and fat begins to take a more damaging form.
White blood cells, especially monocytes and lymphocytes that enter the intima from the blood, are transformed into other cells called macrophages, and the macrophages begin gobbling up the changed fat to turn the cells intofoam cells.
Calcium also is deposited in the walls where the plaque is forming and is responsible for the calcification seen in X-rayed arteries.
The accumulation of foam cells and calcium is called plaque.
It grows and begins to stick out into the lumen, the hollow part inside of the artery.
After 80 percent of the lumen is blocked, blood flow to the heart muscle is reduced.
The irregular surface of a plaque can be the site of accumulation of blood platelets and the formation of a clot.
The clot can go on and reduce the opening of the lumen even more, or it can break off and lodge in a smaller artery, completely closing off blood flow beyond it.
Which results in all the sudden complications like heart attack, diabetic coma etc.