You have the opportunity to measure your blood sugar at home to prevent the symptoms of diabetes. Gabriel Pănculescu, diabetologist, was the guest of Mihail Pautov, specialist, in episode 9, of season 7, at MediCOOL. Learn how diabetes affects the development of cardiovascular disease.
Gabriel Pănculescu discussed the effect of diabetes on cardiovascular diseases, listed some of the possible symptoms of this condition and explained how to use a glucometer correctly at home.
How diabetes affects the development of cardiovascular diseases
An unbalanced lifestyle can cause diabetes. The presence of this condition can affect cardiovascular diseases. High blood pressure and diabetes affect each other, and often they can occur at the same time as obesity. Obesity has its own adverse effect on cardiovascular risk.
The symptoms of diabetes can be dangerous for people who suffer from cardiovascular diseases. In diabetes, the specific cardiovascular damage in diabetes is called diabetic or metabolic cardiopathy. Initially this causes no or very few symptoms of heart failure such as: dyspnoea, cough or leg edema.
If you are wondering how diabetes affects the development of cardiovascular disease, consider that it can take a long time, several months or several years, for the damage of diabetes to the heart to be detected in the most advanced stages of heart failure.
High arterial blood pressure maintained over a long period of time is called arterial hypertension. Blood pressure can be easily measured with a sphygmomanometer to see if you have high blood pressure. Doctors recommend using it for everyone over 30 years old.
How to measure blood sugar at home
Diabetes can be prevented or detected early with the help of a device specially designed for use anywhere. Blood sugar can be measured with a glucometer when you take blood from your finger. So, you can recognize what his values are. Usually, blood sugar is measured on an empty stomach in the morning with a fast 12 hours before. Then it is normal to have up to 100 milligrams/deciliter. 1-2 hours after eating, blood glucose values can be up to 150-160 milligrams / deciliter.
When the blood sugar is high it means that there is too much sugar in the blood, basically there is more glucose than normal. High glucose levels affect small arteries and capillaries throughout the body.
If you want to know how diabetes affects the development of cardiovascular diseases, remember that the presence of excess sugar directly affects the body. It sits on all the blood vessels and nerves throughout the body. Basically, it can cause an accelerated process of atherosclerosis. Because of this, the blood vessels grow faster than they should.
“That excess sugar has a direct effect on us.”
– Gabriel Pănculescu, diabetologist
High blood sugar levels can have much faster filling effects with atheromatous plaques in the blood vessels. These reduce them. Inflammatory mechanisms in diabetes and obesity can even lead to atheromatous plaque rupture within the vessel. When this plaque travels through the blood vessel it can block it completely and even cause a heart attack.
Here you have all the editions of the 7th season of MediCOOL, a show broadcast by Antena 1 and available online only in AntenaPLAY.
The information presented in this article is not a substitute for medical advice. Ask your doctor for advice on diagnosis and treatment.
2024-11-14 06:00:00
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