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Heart Disease and Diabetes Treatment
The goal of treatment is to reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Your doctor will recommend changes in lifestyle or medications to help reduce blood pressure, LDL cholesterol and blood sugar.
The recommendations include:
* Lose weight. The initial goal is to lose between 7 and 10% of current weight. This usually means you need to eat 500 to 1,000 calories less per day.
* Do 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise such as walking, 5 to 7 days per week.
* Lowering cholesterol through weight loss, exercise and lower cholesterol levels, if necessary.
* Lower blood pressure using the loss of weight, exercise and medication, if necessary.
Some people may need daily aspirin in low doses.
People with metabolic syndrome have a higher long term risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
Possible complications
* Atherosclerosis
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Diabetes is a warning sign for heart disease
Most people do not believe that diabetes is a warning sign for heart disease. But it is. At least two of every three people with diabetes die from cardiovascular disease.
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) [National Programme for Diabetes Education (Registrar may)], an initiative of the National Institutes of Health [National Institutes of Health (NIH)] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], urging people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels to prevent or delay heart disease.
Type 2 diabetes, previously called adult-onset diabetes, accounts for 90 to 95 percent of the 16 million Americans with diabetes. This number has increased six times in the past 40 years, partly as a result of increasing age, obesity, physical inactivity and hereditary factors. Read the rest of this entry »