You don’t have diabetes? Better check it out! [INFOGRAPHICS]

At first, it does not show any obvious symptoms. Therefore, as much as 26 percent. people with diabetes in Poland do not know that they have a disease. That’s almost a million people! It’s a good idea to check your blood sugar regularly. Diabetologists remind that this chronic and incurable disease, if detected early, avoids complications.

Over the past 7 years, Poles’ knowledge of diabetes has slightly increased. Just a few years ago, as many as one in five Poles never did a blood sugar test – currently they do not do what 5 of us do. It results from research conducted by the Coalition for Combating Diabetes.