National Diabetes Month: What is Diabetes?
Diabetes isn’t just “high blood sugar” – it’s a chronic condition where your body has trouble regulating the levels of sugar (glucose) that changes how your body uses energy every day.
Diabetes occurs when your body doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use it properly. Insulin helps move sugar (glucose) from your blood into your cells for fuel or energy. Without enough insulin, sugar builds up in the bloodstream, and over time it can damage blood vessels and nerves, affecting your heart, eyes, kidneys, feet, and more.
People with diabetes might feel more tired or thirsty, notice blurry vision, need to urinate more often, or cuts and sores take longer to heal. Left uncontrolled, diabetes raises the risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and vision loss.
In the U.S., over 38 million people—about 1 in 10 Americans—are living with diabetes, and around 1.2 million adults are newly diagnosed each year. Most cases are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, where the body still makes insulin but doesn’t use it well.
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