Diabetes is prevented and best fought in two

They called it a non-infectious epidemic, to give the dimensions of a disease that is gradually becoming a threat to the health of many people and to public health.

We are talking about the diabetes, which he also recognizes in bad habits, first of all unhealthy nutrition and low physical activity, one of the mechanisms that trigger metabolic alterations. One healthy lifestyle, therefore, it is the first weapon for prevention.

If possible, better than that she and he “ally” in this challenge: in this way the results in terms of prevention and control of the pathology appear superior. To say it is a Danish research, presented at the Congress of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

Love is the foundation of healthy habits

The study was conducted at the University of Aarhus and examined the data of a research (Studio Maastricht) aimed at understanding causes, complications and other aspects of type 2 diabetes, what appears in adults.

Evaluating over 170 pairs in terms of the mechanisms of disease genesis and risk factors – from the presence of the “belly” to the percentage of body fat, to the time of physical activity, passing through the diet – the experts also measured the values ​​of post-prandial glycaemia and glycated hemoglobin, the most reliable parameter to find out your blood sugar levels in the months prior to the check.

In terms of nutrition, women’s choices become a sort of “rule” for men too, with a greater tendency to follow a healthy diet together. For the woman, on the other hand, it seems easier to do regular physical activity if the partner also becomes a stimulus towards this healthy habit.

Getting along and making wellness choices together, from what happens at the table to the desire to wear overalls and shoes and run, walk or do exercises in two in the gym, really becomes the best strategy to control blood sugar and prevent diabetes, as well as positively changing attitudes even if the disease is already present.

According to the Danish experts, even specific public health interventions aimed at couples should be planned, to counter the advance of the disease and above all the risks related to it.

Why you have to be careful

The failure to control diabetes, especially when associated with other risk factors for blood vessels – such as being overweight, cigarette smoke, increased cholesterol and hypertension – accelerates the appearance of dangerous complications. These can affect small vessels (microangiopathies) or larger arteries (macroangiopathies).

The overall risk of cardiovascular disease is more than doubled in people with diabetes, with an increase that is proportional to the degree of glycemic decompensation and a further increase in the dangers if other factors such as those mentioned above are present.

For example, the risk of heart attack increases in hypertensive subjects suffering from diabetes. Persistent high levels of glucose in the blood along with dyslipidemia and hypertension accelerate the thickening and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis) causing the onset of coronary disease and of the arteries that carry blood to the brain, favoring the appearance of heart attacks and strokes.

The risk and severity of the various problems increase with the progress of diabetes and therefore the control of the disease is the most effective weapon to prevent or at least delay its onset.

Plus diabetes can damage your eyesight, causing a retinopathy linked to the lesion of the blood vessels in the back of the eye, causing kidney problems, with progressive loss of its filter activity of the kidney, inducing a neuropathy, with damage to the nervous system, favoring the appearance of the diabetic foot, with vascular and nerve injuries that can cause severe bone deformation and ulceration.

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