Diabetes is a serious and chronic health problem, which is seen to affect people of all ages. The condition of increased blood sugar can affect the eyes, nerves, heart and kidneys.
Health experts say that if diabetes is not taken care of on time or is not treated on time, its risks can even be fatal.
Do you know that people with diabetes have a higher risk of having high blood pressure? High blood pressure makes you a heart patient.
But why is it so? What is the relation between diabetes and blood pressure? And what should people who have diabetes do to avoid blood pressure problems? Let us understand this in detail.
What is the relation between diabetes and high blood pressure?
Health experts say that diabetes and high blood pressure, both these diseases are affecting crores of people across the world. These two conditions may generally seem different, but many studies have shown that there is a deep connection between them. Diabetes and high blood pressure together can lead to many serious health complications.
Health experts say, the problem of insulin resistance is usually seen in patients with type-2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is a condition in which your body does not respond properly to the insulin hormone. This hormone helps in controlling blood sugar. Due to insulin resistance, blood sugar level remains increased.
Health experts found that due to insulin resistance, retention of sodium and water along with glucose in the body increases, which can lead to the risk of blood pressure.
What do health experts say?
Diabetologist Dr. Abhishek Upadhyay explains, the condition of high blood sugar starts damaging the walls of the arteries, due to which they become narrow and hard. Similarly, high blood pressure also puts pressure on the arteries, which accelerates the process of atherosclerosis (plaque accumulation in the arteries).
In such a situation, if someone has blood pressure problem along with diabetes, then the risk of heart diseases can increase significantly. This is the reason why diabetes patients should keep their blood pressure checked regularly.
Who are at risk of this?
Doctors say that along with diabetes, if someone has the problem of obesity, lifestyle remains sedentary and diet is not balanced, then due to this the risk of blood pressure and heart related problems increases significantly. Apart from this, due to genetic reasons you may also have the problem of diabetes and high blood pressure.
- A report by the American Diabetes Association shows that approximately 1 in 2 people with diabetes are at risk of high blood pressure.
- At the same time, in people who have both diabetes and high blood pressure, the risk of heart disease increases up to four times.
What precautions should people with diabetes take?
Health experts say, both these conditions together start damaging the small blood vessels of the kidneys, 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 important to maintain proper diet and lifestyle.
- For this, keep the amount of salt and sugar in the diet low and consume 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 their blood pressure regularly.
- If it often remains high or low, then consult a doctor regarding this.
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Note: This article has been prepared on the basis of information collected from medical reports.
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