Saturday, December 19, 2009

Diabetes and High Blood Pressure - What's the Connection?

By Christian Goodman

A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, (also known as adult onset or non-insulin dependent diabetes). This was a surprise to her as she didn't seem to suffer any symptoms typical of this disease, frequent urination, lack of energy, thirst and weight loss.

when her physician ordered a test at her yearly check up She came to know that she is diabetic.

I, along with her doctor took this diagnosis very seriously as my friend had previously been diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension, a few years ago.

Is that a problem? People should understand more than two third of people with diabetes do have high blood pressure.

Normally diabetes means that the body could not process sugar properly. There are two types of diabetes. In type 1 the pancreas will not produce enough insulin to maintain blood sugar between meals. People who suffer from this kind of diabetes need to inject insulin in order to maintain blood sugar.

Type 2 diabetes is a condition where the body does actually produce insulin but it is unable to properly process sugar. Of the over 5 million sufferers of diabetes (experts believe this number is actually double and that many people suffer from the disease and don't realize it), between 90-95% of those suffer type 2 diabetes.

For those with type 2 diabetes, tissues become targets of the uncontrolled sugars and begin to erode. The most susceptible are the eyes, nerves, kidneys and heart. In fact, diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure and the sixth highest cause of heart failure.

The person who suffers from diabetes feels no symptoms just like hypertension. And this affects their major organs and eyes for years.

In fact, those with high blood pressure and diabetes are over 75 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke! In addition to this hypertension also affects heart, kidney's and eyes.

While medication is needed for many with diabetes, the good news is that you can help delay or prevent the effects of the disease from spreading simply by maintaining a healthy weight and exercising. Additionally, avoid excessive alcohol intake.

Similar to diabetes people who suffer from hypertension can also do certain things like regular exercise, maintaining health, avoid drinking excess alcohol and stop smoking to reduce the effects of hypertension. Even though medications are available it comes with dangerous side effects.

If you suffer from high blood pressure and would like an all natural proven treatment, I recommend my High Blood Pressure program. It's natural breathing and relaxation exercises have helped thousands like you and it may even help for your type 2 diabetes since the two are closely connected.

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