Paul Robertson: With all diabetes, the diagnosis is made because blood glucose, or blood sugar levels, rises above normal. He said that diabetes is so devastating because it’s a progressive illness that does lots of organ damage, and the disease gets worse with time.

　　保罗·罗伯逊：对所有糖尿病病例来说，我们都以血液中的葡萄糖水平——即所谓的血糖——高于标准作为确诊依据。他说， 糖尿病非常具有破坏性，因为这种逐步恶化的疾病会造成许多器官损伤，症状也会随时间加重。