Diabetes: Causes & Risks

Diabetic Retinopathy - What Increases Your Risk

Your risk of developing diabetic retinopathy depends largely on two factors: how long you have had diabetes and whether or not you have kept good control of your blood sugar.

Diabetic Retinopathy - Cause

Diabetes damages small blood vessels throughout the body, leading to reduced blood flow. When these changes affect the tiny blood vessels in the eyes, diabetic retinopathy may develop.

Achard Thiers Syndrome

Wolfram Syndrome

Type 1 Diabetes: Children Living With the Disease - What Increases Your Risk

Risk factors for very high or low blood sugar levels in a child with type 1 diabetes include:

Type 1 Diabetes: Living With the Disease - What Happens

Your experience with type 1 diabetes will be different from that of other people. But your treatment will be the same: taking insulin, eating a balanced diet that spreads carbohydrate throughout the day, getting regular exerc

Type 1 Diabetes: Living With the Disease - What Increases Your Risk

Type 1 diabetes puts you at risk for high and low blood sugar and complications.

Type 1 Diabetes: Living With the Disease - Cause

You have type 1 diabetes because your pancreas can no longer produce insulin. When your pancreas was working, it adjusted the amount of insulin it made based on your changing blood sugar. However, insulin injections cannot co

Type 1 Diabetes: Living With Complications - Cause

Complications from type 1 diabetes are caused by one or both of the following: