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Diabetes & High Blood Pressure

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Sort Desciption: Diabetes & High Blood Pressure. What is Diabetes? ... What is High Blood Pressure? Your heart and blood vessels. make up your circulatory ...

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What is Diabetes? Diabetes is a condition that means having too much sugar in the blood. When we eat food, the body turns it into sugar to use for energy. With diabetes, the body doesnt produce enough or any of the chemical insulin that helps us use the food we eat as energy. Without exercise, a healthy nutritious diet, and sometimes medications, diabetes will go uncontrolled, and the unused food (sugar) will stay in the blood and eventually cause complications in the body. The Human Body Can having diabetes affect my blood pressure? If you have diabetes, you are twice as likely as other people to have heart disease or a stroke. You can cut back or prevent your risk of heart disease and stroke by controlling the ABCs of diabetesA1C (blood glucose), blood pressure, and cholesterol, eating healthy foods, being physically active, losing weight, quitting smoking, and taking medications (if needed). When your blood vessels, like the hose shown above, are blocked by fat and cholesterol, the heart has to INCREASE the Blood Pressure to move the blood through the body. This causes high blood pressure. High Blood Pressure = 140/90 Good Blood Pressure = 130/85 Great Blood Pressure = 120/80 High Blood Pressure is Dangerous because it can cause life threatening strokes and heart attacks. If you have any warning signs of a heart attack or a stroke, get medical care immediately dont delay. Early treatment of heart attack and stroke in a hospital emergency room can reduce damage to the heart and the brain. Clear Vessel = Normal Pressure Blocked Vessel = High Pressure What is High Blood Pressure? Your heart and blood vessels make up your circulatory system. Your heart is a muscle that pumps ...

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