Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Diabetes is a main risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Vascular disorders contain retinopathy and nephropathy, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), stroke, and coronary artery disease (CAD). Diabetes also affect the heart muscle, causing both systolic and diastolic heart failure. The etiology of this overindulgence cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is not completely clear. Evidence suggest that although hyperglycemia, the hallmark of diabetes, contributes to myocardial damage after ischemic events, it is clearly not the only factor, because both pre-diabetes and the presence of the metabolic syndrome, even in normoglycemic patients, raise the risk of most types of CVD.

  • High blood pressure
  • Abnormal cholesterol and high triglycerides
  • Lack of physical activity
  • Metabolic Syndrome

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