Type 2 Diabetic
January 14, 2010 by admin
Filed under Diabetic News
Let’s start with the good news. There are 2 factors in Type 2 diabetics’ metabolism that will actually reduce and potentially dump the risk factors for coronaries and strokes.
The bad news is that heart problems is the number one killer of Type 2 diabetics. The same risk factors are present for both : being obese, unhealthy triglyceride and cholesterol levels, and hypertension.
The metabolic syndrome is not just a bunch of independent symptoms that happen to coincide in an individual. All these risk factors are strongly related and work together. If you have even one of them, you are sure to have many, and likely all of them. The only way to grasp what your triglyceride and cholesterol levels are is through lab testing.
Having the metabolic syndrome may appear like a dark and sad scenario ( and it is ), but the proven fact that these elements are so closely related may also be used to stop or lessen their effect.
These 2 factors are being obese and high blood sugar. Control these 2 classic Type 2 diabetes factors, and the triglyceride and cholesterol levels should improve, the high blood pressure reduce, and your general health will improve.
There is one more factor present in Type 2 diabetics, the factor that all but outlines what Type 2 diabetes is : insulin resistance. Insulin resistance must be controlled, else attempts to control weight and blood-sugar will be maddening and near impossible.
It is particularly difficult in those cases where the Type 2 diabetic must employ insulin injections to help to control blood sugars. On and on it goes in a terrible, arching cycle towards cardio-vascular and other potentially fatal diseases.
Insulin resistance can be treated with drugs like metformin and/or others prescribed by your physician. A further approach and therapy is to limit the amount of carbs in the diet that raise blood-sugar and require insulin in the 1st place.
The point of this article is that by controlling your weight and blood sugars, as well as your insulin resistance, you can significantly lessen your risk factors for heart problems and strokes.