Skin symptom: Yellow bumps on arms and legs or dark velvety patches
What it might mean: You should be screened for diabetes.
"Yellow, waxy looking bumps can emerge on skin as the result of high triglyceride levels or diabetes," says Peredo. Dark, velvety patches of skin on the back of your neck and arms ("people will try to rub it off thinking it's dirt, but it's not," she says) are another sign of diabetes. Though 29 million Americans have diabetes, one-quarter of them don't know it, so skin symptoms may be one of the first clues.
Skin symptom: Yellow bumps on arms and legs or dark velvety patchesWhat it might mean: You should be screened for diabetes. "Yellow, waxy looking bumps can emerge on skin as the result of high triglyceride levels or diabetes," says Peredo. Dark, velvety patches of skin on the back of your neck and arms ("people will try to rub it off thinking it's dirt, but it's not," she says) are another sign of diabetes. Though 29 million Americans have diabetes, one-quarter of them don't know it, so skin symptoms may be one of the first clues.
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