Al-Marsad newspaper: Diabetes poses many health risks if it is not detected early, however, women tend to be diagnosed earlier than men, and they are at risk of developing more serious complications, and it is important to know the warning signs and look for them from a young age because the condition It can go undetected for 10 years or more.
Statistics show that 2.4% of men in England between the ages of 35 and 44 suffer from diabetes compared to only 1.2% of women of the same age, but is there any difference in the symptoms that appear in women and men.
Experts have revealed that most of the symptoms of diabetes are the same in men and women, and the general symptoms of type 2 diabetes include:
Urinating more than usual, especially at night.
Feeling thirsty all the time.
Feeling very tired.
Lose weight without trying.
Frequent thrush infection.
Wounds take longer to heal.
– Blurred vision.
Do diabetes symptoms differ according to gender?
There are some differences between the sexes as the condition progresses, as men suffer from loss of muscle mass and genital thrush, and 45% of diabetics suffer from erectile dysfunction due to nerve, muscle and blood vessel damage, and men can develop diabetes when their body mass index is low with complications Additional symptoms such as erectile dysfunction and loss of muscle mass.
While women have a higher chance of developing heart disease, kidney disease and depression, which makes it more dangerous to women’s lives than men, women also suffer from some different early symptoms such as genital yeast infections, urinary tract infections and oral yeast infections, and some females suffer from sexual dysfunction and syndrome Polycystic ovaries.