How Diabetes Affects the Heart WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on How Diabetes Affects the Heart
Diabetes that is not controlled can cause heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and peripheral artery disease.1 High blood glucose damages nerves and blood vessels causing atherosclerosis.2 Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of deaths associated with diabetes. 3 In 2006, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.3
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- Approximately 65 percent of diabetic patients eventually die from heart disease or stroke.4
- Keeping blood sugar under control, proper diet and exercise, cholesterol monitoring, and controlling blood pressure are ways to prevent heart complications associated with diabetes.5
- Vision loss, kidney failure, and lower extremity amputations are other health problems associated with diabetes.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ HowStuffWorks: How Diabetes Affects the Heart
- ↑ American Diabetes Association (ADA): Diabetes and Cardiovascular (Heart) Disease
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC): What is the Connection Between Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke?
- ↑ American Heart Association (AHA): Diabetes
- ↑ FamilyDoctor.org: Diabetes and Heart Disease
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- Contributor: Carolyn DeLucas
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
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- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Carolyn DeLucas
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Heart and Diabetes, Diabetes and Affects on the Heart, How Heart is Affected by Diabetes
- Last update: Apr. 13, 2009
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