Smokers suffer from 10 main symptoms that predict diabetes

The "Friends of Diabetes" Association, affiliated to the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in Sharjah, revealed 10 main symptoms of diabetes, through which a person can know that he has the disease, stressing that the disease is not transmitted from one person to another, but there are more serious factors that make A person is more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

The association stated that these factors are: age over the age of 45, overweight (body mass index over 25), smokers, lack of regular exercise, belonging to a family with members with diabetes, women who have had gestational diabetes previously, and women who suffer from Polycystic ovary disease.

She explained that those at risk of developing the disease also suffer from high blood pressure, high blood fats, Arabs, Asians, African Americans or Latinos, and pre-diabetes or "sugar tolerance disorder", a stage between the normal range and diabetes.

The association referred to 10 symptoms of diabetes through which a person can know he has it, which are: constant hunger, excessive thirst, urinating frequently and in large quantities, chronic fatigue, dryness and itching of the skin, weight loss, slow healing of wounds and ulcers, as well as frequent infections. Such as inflammation of the bladder, vagina and gums, disturbance of vision, and finally nausea.

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