Diabetes

Diabetes and its complications contribute significantly to ill health, disability and premature death in Australia. Diabetes related complications include:

• coronary heart disease
• stroke
• peripheral vascular disease
• blindness
• kidney disease
• amputation of limbs and impotence.

Early detection and effective management are the keys to diabetes control. Good glucose control can delay the onset and slow the progress of complications in all types of diabetes.

See your medical practitioner or talk to Diabetes Australia.

Other useful information on Diabetes can be found at the Better Health Channel website which is run by the Victorian State Government.

Multilingual Resources

Diabetes Australia has a great set of information sheets which explain the disease and it is available in 13 languages for those where English is their second language. The information sheets come in the following languages:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Greek
• Hindi
• Italian
• Malaysian
• Serbian
• Spanish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Vietnamese
• Ukrainian

To see these information sheets visit the Multilingual Resources section of the Diabetes Australia website.