Diabetes is one of the occult diseases which needs widespread awareness among people. It must be diagnosed as early as possible, especially in persons who have a family history of diabetes, are obese, in women who have given birth to overweight/ stillborn/ abnormal babies, and/or have elevated blood sugar, or pass sugar in urine during the period of pregnancy. Such persons are called prediabetics. An effective control of the disease is of vital importance so that prediabetics do not become diabetics and those who are suffering from diabetes are able to keep their blood sugar levels normal.
The only way to detect the problem is to. check the blood sugar levels of all persons irrespective of their age. The reasons being that the duration of diabetes has a cumulative effect, adding to the complications of the disease later. An early detection helps control the disease immediately, and various complications can be prevented or reversed through timely detection and treatment.
Since the disease has no symptoms in the beginning, as in the case of hypertension, and in many other diseases, mass surveys of the population, for checking blood sugar levels, are of the utmost importance for diagnosing it in time.
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