Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases with high incidence, mainly due to the influence of genetic, environmental, endocrine and other factors that cause the body to have insufficient or defective insulin secretion, and is clinically classified as stage 1 diabetes, stage 2 diabetes, stage 3 diabetes, gestational diabetes, etc.
In terms of diabetes, there is no early or late stage.
There are no early or late stages of diabetes, but when diabetes progresses to a certain level, a series of complications will occur, which can greatly affect the quality of life and life expectancy of patients, such as uremia in the end stage of diabetic nephropathy; myocardial infarction in diabetic heart disease; and blindness in diabetic retinopathy, all of which can greatly affect their survival;
So if a patient with diabetes gets timely treatment to keep blood sugar within a reasonable range and reduce complications, then life expectancy is not affected; instead if the patient has more severe complications, then the possible survival time may be five years or less.