Identify early warning signs of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia: Headaches, dizziness, and slow-healing wounds are health warnings.

Warning signs of "the three highs" (high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol). Six major warning signs of hypertension: With changes in modern lifestyles and increasingly heavy workloads and life pressures, hypertension is showing a trend of affecting younger people. If blood pressure is not well controlled, it may lead to stroke and coronary heart disease. Therefore, understanding the early signs of hypertension can help control blood pressure early and delay the progression of complications.

Headache: Headache is a common symptom in patients with hypertension, and its causes are varied, sometimes caused by hypertension itself, and sometimes by excessive mental stress. The headache is often located in the back of the head and is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. If you frequently experience severe headaches, along with nausea and vomiting, it may be a sign of malignant hypertension. More seriously, headaches can also be a precursor to stroke. 2. Dizziness: More common in female patients, it may occur when suddenly squatting or standing up. 3. Tinnitus: Tinnitus in both ears, lasting for a long time. 4. Palpitation and shortness of breath: Hypertension can lead to myocardial hypertrophy, enlarged heart, myocardial infarction, and heart failure, all of which can cause palpitations and shortness of breath. 5. Insomnia: Often characterized by difficulty falling asleep, early awakening, restless sleep, nightmares, and easy startling. This is related to dysfunction of the cerebral cortex and autonomic nervous system. 6. Numbness in the limbs.

Common warning signs of diabetes: Generally, most people think that "polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia, and weight loss" are the most prominent signs of diabetes. However, many diabetic patients do not have typical "polyuria, polydipsia, and weight loss" symptoms and are often diagnosed with diabetes during physical examinations, hospitalizations, or when other symptoms appear. In fact, there are many subtle signs before diabetes is diagnosed, and with careful attention, it can be detected early.

1. Poor wound healing: Due to local circulatory and metabolic disorders, wounds in diabetic patients heal more slowly than in healthy individuals. This is especially true after surgical procedures in diabetic patients, where wounds may heal poorly, become repeatedly infected, and develop into chronic, difficult-to-heal ulcers. This is particularly common in the extremities. 2. Drooping eyelids: Diabetes leads to arteriosclerosis, causing ischemia in the small blood vessels supplying the oculomotor nerve, resulting in drooping eyelids. This type of drooping eyelid has two characteristics: first, it has a rapid onset and is unilateral, often starting with pain in the forehead or orbital area on the affected side, followed by drooping; second, in addition to ptosis, it is often accompanied by difficulty moving the eyeball inward, upward, or downward, resulting in diplopia (double vision).

4. Thick urine: If urine spills outside the toilet bowl after urination, it may feel sticky when stepped on. This is because the urine of diabetic patients contains sugar. 5. Sudden weight gain: More than 60% of diabetic patients who develop the disease after age 40 are overweight or obese at the time of onset. The main reason is that the accumulation of body fat leads to insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and reduced glucose utilization by muscles and other tissues, eventually developing into impaired glucose tolerance and ultimately diabetes.

Frequent snoring: According to a report by the International Diabetes Federation, people who snore frequently have a 2.5 times higher risk of developing diabetes than the general population; and more than 23% of diabetic patients also have obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Moreover, the more severe the sleep apnea, the greater the chance of developing diabetes. 6. Darkening of the neck: A skin condition called pseudoacanthosis nigricans is also linked to diabetes, characterized by darkening, thickening, and roughness of the skin, with the most noticeable changes in the armpits, neck, and groin area. Research data shows that patients with pseudoacanthosis nigricans have significantly elevated plasma insulin levels, indicating a potential risk of developing diabetes.

8. Facial flushing: It is reported that typical diabetic patients do not experience any abnormal changes in facial color before or after the onset of the disease. However, a survey of over a thousand cases of latent diabetes revealed that the vast majority of patients had a reddish complexion, with 89.5% exhibiting varying degrees of facial flushing. 9. Skin itching: The most obvious symptom of early-stage diabetes is skin itching. Approximately 10% of early-stage diabetic patients experience systemic or localized skin itching, which is often persistent, with the most severe itching occurring in the genital or anal areas.