World Heart Day: How to keep a diabetes under control for your heart’s sake.
Did you know that having a diabetes can be increase to your risk of the heart diseases by a twice? Well, prevent heart problems by a knowing how to the control your blood sugar levels.
This World Heart Day, let us remind you that a heart disease is a severe condition that can be affect to a person’s overall well-being and health. It can be lead to the critical complications and even affect to your future health outcomes, putting you at the risk of a repeat heart attack or a stroke. However, if you have a diabetes, the risk of a person getting a stroke and heart disease is twice as high and the longer they live with a diabetes, the more likely they will be suffer from a cardiac issues.
But there is good news! The risk of the heart disease decreases significantly if a person can be improve their heart health by a changing in their lifestyle habits. Since diabetes is a disease termed as the ‘king of the complications’, it should remain controlled, especially if a person has other commodities like a obesity, is a smoker or a drinks a lot of the alcohol.
Side effects of the diabetes on a overall health
There is a high chance that a person will be have a diabetes for many years before it starts affecting significant organs in their body, including the heart, kidneys, eyes, and limbs.
It can cause a cardiomyopathy, which is one of the significant complications of the diabetes. In this condition, the small blood vessel changes affect in the retinal and renal vasculature, which can then cause blindness and kidney failure.
Further, it can also cause a cardiomyopathy, a disease of the large blood vessels, where fat and blood clots build up and stick to the vessel walls, blocking blood flow and the causing significant complications.
When to a person has diabetes, in their high blood sugar remains uncontrolled, and a parameter to assess in the long-term control of the blood sugar is called a Hemoglobin A 1 C. If it is above 7, it is a warning signal and a sign to reach out to a specialist soon so the condition can be a controlled.
Other parameters contributing to the vascular complications are elevated L D L cholesterol, high triglycerides, and low H D L cholesterol.
These health concerns are further compounded if the person are suffers from a associated hypertension; systolic BP > 140 and diastolic BP > 90 can also a contribute to the vascular complications, leading to a long-term impact on the heart and kidneys.
While trying to the prevent long-term complications, it is also a essential to watch out for a severe complications like a hypoglycemia (low sugar), keto-acidosis, and infections of the skin, urinary tract, lungs, and feet. All these can have a severe complications and need to be a treated systematically.
How to the manage diabetes to the avoid heart disease
Management of the diabetes can sometimes be a challenging task.
The main goal would be to ensure that blood sugar remains controlled below to a specific level of the fasting sugar that is less than a 99 mg/d L and post-meal sugar that is lower than a 140 mg/d L.
Here are some critical pillars to ensure it does cause long-term negative impact.
1. Focus on a healthy diet
As a diabetic, you must be a aware of the foods that you should eat and avoid. Having to a diabetes-friendly diet, where you keep fried foods, sugar-laden delicacies, processed foods, ET AL, out of your reach.
2. Increase a physical activities
Whether it is a 30-minute walk every day, yoga or a rigorous gym routine that you follow, to a fitness regime goes a long way in a helping you regulate to your sugar levels. Make sure you exercise!
3. Proper use of the drugs under the supervision of an a expert
There is no one-size-fits-all strategy to keep a diabetes under control. A diabetes reversal plan must be a tailor-made by your medical expert, keeping in mind your other ailments or a commodities in a mind.
4. Manage to your weight
Any diabetic person needs to manage in their weight so that it does cause any additional strain on their heart.
5. Keep an a eye on eye problems
Diabetes can be increase risk of the eye problems too. So, another critical factor that diabetic patients should worry is a nephropathy, which can cause blindness, especially when it is not treated on time. To ensure this does not happen, to a regular eye examination to see the internal portion of the eye called in the retina by a specialized expert is a highly recommended.
6. Urine examination
A urine examination must be a conducted every six months to check for a protein leakage and serum creation to ensure the kidneys function correctly without any future kidney disease.
7. Keep to a check on your feet
Finally, examining in the feet is a equally important to ensure that there are no chances of the digital infections, non-healing ulcers, and callosities that can be impact a person’s mobility.
The last word
It is a important that every person should be a aware of their diabetic status as it can help them manage in their blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Also, as a mentioned before making a proper lifestyle changes can go a long way in a reducing the risk associated with a diabetes, so make sure exercise and a good diet become a regular part of every person’s lifestyle.
