Complications Diabetes mellitus is the most common cause of adult kidney failure worldwide. It also the most common cause of amputation in the US, usually toes and feet, often as a result of gangrene, and almost always as a result of peripheral artery disease. Retinal damage (from microangiopathy) makes it the most common cause of blindness among non-elderly adults in the US.
Diabetic angiopathy
Chorangiosis
Arteriolosclerosis
Microangiopathy
Arterial tortuosity syndrome
Angiolathyrism
Macrovascular disease
Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis