Doctors have named a new sign of type 2 diabetes

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The body can “warn” about the development of diabetes in unusual ways – for example, one of the signals of this disease is weight loss, doctors warn.

The development of type 2 diabetes is associated with impaired production of the hormone insulin or loss of sensitivity to it by the body's cells. The result of these changes is the accumulation of sugar in the blood, its chronically high level. This was reminded by experts from the Diabetes UK organization (Great Britain).

Doctors have warned that diabetes can remain unnoticed for a long time until the glucose level in the body reaches critical values. Usually this means that negative changes have already occurred in the body due to hyperglycemia, which has a detrimental effect on blood vessels, heart, and kidneys.

Experts have named an unusual sign that type 2 diabetes can manifest itself as weight loss that is not associated with attempts to lose weight.

“Losing more than five percent of weight without any obvious explanation may be caused by diabetes,” the organization’s website reports.

Doctors explain that the lack of insulin characteristic of diabetes does not allow the body to fully use glucose from the blood to produce energy. In such circumstances, the body begins to burn fat and muscle to obtain it – this leads to the fact that a person unexpectedly loses weight.

Experts urged not to ignore this symptom and to get examined if weight decreases without diets and increased exercise.