People with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure or eye damage. Type 2 diabetes was also used to be known as maturity onset, or Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes. With Type 2 diabetes, the illness and diabetes symptoms tend to develop rather gradually (over weeks or months).

Those who develop type 2 diabetes are usually people who are aged 45 and above. However, these people are usually unaware that they have contracted the disease until severe diabetes symptoms appear, or until they fall very ill and have to be treated.

Type 2 diabetes symptoms include the following:

- Deteriorating eyesight

- Going to the restroom frequently

- Feeling worn-out

- Sore throat that can't be healed

- Feet pain

People often mistook the above type 2 diabetes symptoms with other medical conditions. This is because their symptoms look very similar. There are, however, times when these type 2 diabetes symptoms may not show up at all when the glucose level in their bodies are not too high.

In people with Type 2 diabetes, the diabetes symptoms and signs will not be so obvious. Because of the nature of these early Type 2 diabetes symptoms being somewhat obscure, many diabetics are unaware of the disease or its progression inside their bodies.

Type 2 diabetes is known to be one of the most common forms of diabetes today. It is also one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Sufferers of type 2 diabetes are also very likely to develop cardiovascular disease.

Many people with pre-diabetes develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years, according to a research done by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. If type 2 diabetes is properly treated from the early stages of the disease, the risk of any long-term complications is greatly reduced.

Although a person can inherit a tendency to develop type 2 diabetes, it usually takes another important factor, such as obesity, to bring on this disease.

Specific treatment for type 2 diabetes will be determined by your doctor based on age, overall health conditions, and your medical histories such as your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or medical therapies.

To control and subdue type 2 diabetes, one can exercise more, consume healthier diets, and lower his own weight. All these help to fight against type 2 diabetes.