Diabetes Patients Urged to Monitor Vital Organs for Complication Prevention

Chandrapur: Diabetes is a disease that affects every organ of the body gradually. Patients, especially those who have been diabetic for more than 5 years, need to regularly check the functioning of other vital organs of the body rather than just checking their sugar levels. Negligence carries the risk of heart disease, kidney failure, or blindness. Cardiologist Dr. Pradeep Varghane advises timely appropriate tests. Increased risk of heart disease leads to hardening of blood vessels, which increases the risk of heart attack. This requires screening of retina and leg sensations once a year. Timely planning of tests is essential. Checking sugar after meals and starvation is mandatory every month, while HbA1c testing every three months to check average blood sugar levels over the past 90 days is a must, in addition to six months of'creatinine profile'tests for family cholesterol levels and six months of'creatinine profile'tests.