Diabetes UK Cymru has launched a poster campaign to help people in Wales recognize the signs of diabetes as more than 153,000 people are suffering from diabetes in Wales and experts suspect that another 66,000 are clueless that they have it.

Diabetes is a long term condition caused by too much sugar in the blood and it can even lead to heart diseases, stroke, nerve damage, damage to the retina, kidney disease and damage to nerves in the foot.

Increased thirst, extreme tiredness, unexplained weight loss, genital itching or regular episodes of thrush, slow healing of cuts and wounds, blurred vision, and passing urine more often than usual are the most common symptoms of this disease.

More than 90% of the patients suffer from type-2 diabetes in which body either can’t make enough insulin or can’t use than insulin properly. In another type of diabetes which is called type-1 diabetes, the consequences of not being diagnosed if you have the condition can be quite dangerous as it is an unpreventable condition, though very few people are diagnosed with type-1 diabetes.

The most distinctive feature of type-2 diabetes is that its symptoms develop gradually and experts believe that more than one million people in UK are unaware that they are living with this condition.