Nerves

Diabetes can lead to nerve damage over time. Learn more here.

Neuropathy (Nerve Damage and Numbness)

Some persons with diabetes have trouble feeling their feet or experience strange burning or tingling sensations due to damage to the long nerves that extend from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Damage to these long nerves, known as “peripheral...

Stroke

People with type 2 diabetes are more than two times more likely than others to have an ischemic stroke. That’s not surprising when you consider that many of the risk factors for stroke and diabetes overlap: High blood pressure Obesity High cholesterol The symptoms of...