Diabetes is a serious and chronic health problem, which has been seen threatened in people of all ages. The condition of increased blood sugar can be affected by the eyes, nerves, heart and kidney.
Health experts say, if diabetes is not taken care of in time or if it is not treated in time, then its risks can also be fatal.
Do you know that there is a high risk of high blood pressure in people suffering from diabetes? High blood pressure makes you a heart patient.
But why is this so? What is the relationship between diabetes and blood pressure? And people who have diabetes should do to avoid blood pressure problem? Let’s understand this in detail.
What is the relationship between diabetes and high blood pressure?
Health experts say, diabetes and high blood pressure, both these diseases are affecting crores of people worldwide. Usually these two situations may seem different, but many studies make it clear that there is a deep connection between them. Diabetes and high blood pressure together can lead to many serious health complications.
Health experts say that the problem of insulin resistance is usually seen in patients with type-2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is the condition in which your body does not react properly to insulin hormones. This hormone helps control blood sugar. Blood sugar levels are increased due to insulin resistance.
Health experts found that insulin resistance increases the retention of glucose as well as sodium and water in the body, causing a risk of blood pressure.
What do health experts say?
Diabetist Dr. Abhishek Upadhyay explains, the condition of high blood sugar starts damaging the arteries walls, making them narrow and rigid. Similarly, high blood pressure also puts pressure on the arteries, which increases the process of atherosclerosis (the arteries freezing).
In such a situation, if someone has a problem of blood pressure with diabetes, then the risk of heart diseases can increase considerably. This is the reason that sugar patients should also keep checking their blood pressure regularly.
Who is in danger of this?
Doctors say, along with diabetes, if someone has a problem of obesity, lifestyle remains motionless and the diet is not balanced, then the risk of blood pressure and heart related problems increases considerably. Apart from this, due to genetic reasons, you may also have problems with diabetes and high blood pressure.
- A report by the American Diabetes Association suggests that about 1 out of two people suffering from diabetes are at risk of high blood pressure.
- At the same time, people who have both diabetes and high blood pressure problems increase the risk of heart disease by four times.
What precautions to take diabetes?
Health experts say, both these conditions together damage the small blood vessels of the kidney, which can lead to kidney failure. At the same time, high blood pressure increases the risk of blindness by damaging the blood vessels in the retina.
To avoid this kind of problem, it is necessary to keep diet and lifestyle right.
- For this, keep the amount of salt in the diet and keep the amount of fiber-rich things as much as possible. At least 150 minutes of physical activity a week can be helpful in controlling both blood pressure and sugar.
- People who have diabetes should also keep checking blood pressure regularly.
- If it is often high or low, consult a doctor about this.
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Note: This article has been prepared on the basis of information collected from medical reports.
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