Tuesday, December 8, 2009

What's The Link between diabetes and Heart Disease


What's The Link between diabetes and Heart Disease?
I know that Triglycerides strengthen the link between diabetes and heart disease but how does that go?
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Ben ! The vagus nerve regulates the heart rate, and when it gets injured due to high blood glucose levels the heart rate is fast even at rest. The fast heart rate by itself is not nec­essarily harmful, unless the person also has coronary artery disease. In this case, the neuropathy can increase the risk of serious heart rhythm problems and even death. Therefore, people with diabetes who have autonomic neuropathy affecting the heart should be evaluated by a cardiologist to determine the extent of heart disease. For more visit http://www.diabetesindetail.com
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Several of our organs do not run primarily or sugar, but on fat. The heart is one of them. And the diabetic heart takes up more fat and burns more fat than it needs. So the hearts of people with diabetes tend to have more fat in them, which can cause the heart to not squeeze so well. That's what is called cardiomyopathy. The same problem may happen in the small blood vessels. That's the link triglycerides strengthens between diabetes and heart disease. Insulin resistance in cells that line blood vessels makes the vessels susceptible to damage from fatty acids. Then, high blood sugars and high fatty acids can cause the heart to put down extra scar tissue, making it so the heart cant expand and contract as it should. Therefore, fatty acids and triglycerides are contributing to the onset of diabetes by damaging the insulin-producing beta cells



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