As an endocrinologist, there is nothing more distressing than a pre-diabetic or newly diagnosed diabetic who does not pay attention to his or her blood glucose. However, you do not realize that diabetes is the sweet and silent killer of health and life, but people do not realize it. Did you know? The prevalence of diabetes in China has reached 11.6%, and the prediabetes rate is 50%, which means that 61.6% of people have blood sugar problems, so diabetes has become a big epidemic. At the same time, the public is not aware of the dangers of diabetes, and many people are found to have combined complications as soon as they are diagnosed with diabetes, or are only found to have diabetes when they are hospitalized in cardiology or neurology due to acute heart attacks, brain attacks, and other serious diabetic macrovascular pathologies. In diabetes, the body’s resistance decreases and it is easy to combine infections, such as colds, pneumonia, diabetic foot, etc.; diabetic foot is the primary cause of amputation. In hemodialysis centers, diabetic nephropathy leads to kidney failure, which is the first cause of dialysis; blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness; numbness and pain in hands and feet caused by diabetic peripheral neuropathy often bother patients and seriously affect the quality of life; gastroparesis caused by diabetic vegetative neuropathy often leads to bloating, nausea and vomiting after meals; diabetic vegetative neuropathy In men, the earliest symptom of diabetic macroangiopathy is erectile dysfunction.