If diabetes is not controlled, the impact on life expectancy depends on a number of factors, including when the diabetes started and how high the blood glucose rises.
If the onset of diabetes is late and the elevation of blood glucose is not very high, the impact on life expectancy may not be significant, but if the onset of diabetes is early and the elevation of blood glucose is high, the impact on life expectancy is likely to be significant. There are no specific statistics in the literature on the exact number of years one can live. This is not to say that if you have diabetes and don’t treat it, you will die after a few years, because some people with diabetes, whose blood sugar is not too high, can control it well simply by diet and increased exercise, and this condition does not have a great impact on life expectancy.
If you have diabetes, your own blood sugar is high, and you don’t intervene and treat it, the impact on your life expectancy is related to the following: 1. Diabetes itself causes diabetic hyperosmolar coma, hypoglycemic coma, and diabetic ketoacidosis coma, which can be life-threatening at any time if not treated promptly. 2. The first of these is a diabetic coma.