Your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is an estimate of how many calories your body burns at rest. It represents the minimum amount of energy needed to keep your body functioning, including breathing and keeping your heart beating. Your BMR uses up about two-thirds of your daily calories.
1 Diabetes-related complications include damage to large and small blood vessels, which can lead to heart attack and stroke, and problems with the kidneys, eyes, feet and nerves. 2  The risk of most diabetes-related complications can be reduced.  Regular screening is important to detect complications early.
Diabetes affects the entire body. Diabetics are also much more likely to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The pancreas is the organ that makes insulin, if that was what you really wanted to know, but diabetes effects the eyes, all circulatory system organs, kidneys, nerves, and digestive system.he major organs affected though are the eyes (retinopathy-which can cause blindness) kidneys (nephropathy-can cause kidney failure) and the circulation of limbs. You can have decreased circulation and damage to the nerves (diabetic neuropathy) which makes people prone to injury of their feet.