Because pancreatitis can increase your risk of breathing problems, diabetes, infections, kidney failure, malnutrition and pancreatic cancer, watching what you eat is essential. Eating certain foods can help prevent an attack and reduce symptoms, the University of Maryland Medical Center reports.
Neuropathies related to diabetes can affect 60-70% of people with diabetes. Neuropathy associated with type 2 diabetes may be present at the time of diagnosing diabetes. Neuropathy associated with type 1 diabetes usually develops more than 10 years after the diagnosis of diabetes.
Diabetic nephropathy -- kidney disease that results from diabetes -- is the number one cause of kidney failure. Almost a third of people with diabetes develop diabetic nephropathy. People with diabetes and kidney disease do worse overall than people with kidney disease alone.