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Just having to live with blood glucose testing, dietary restric-
tions and diabetes meds with a wide variety of side effects is only
the tip of the diabetes iceberg.
DEADLY COMPLICATIONS
The complications of diabetes are daunting:
• Heart disease is reported as a cause of death in 68% of people
with diabetes aged 65 and over.
• People with diabetes have a 2 to 4 times greater chance of dying
of heart disease or stroke than those without the disease.
• High blood pressure is reported in 67% of those with diabetes.
• Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in peo-
ple aged 29 to 74.
• Kidney failure attributed to diabetes accounts for 44% of all new
cases. In 2008, the latest year for which statistics are available,
more than 202,000 people with end-stage kidney disease due to
diabetes were living on dialysis or with a kidney transplant.