👉Excess blood sugar decreases the elasticity of blood vessels and causes them to narrow, impeding blood flow. This can lead to a reduced supply of blood and oxygen, increasing the risk of high blood pressure and damage to large and small blood vessels. High blood pressure is a risk factor for heart disease.
🤔What is the relationship between type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease?
👉DM is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and are disproportionately affected by CVD compared with non-diabetic subjects.
🤔What causes cardiovascular disease in diabetes?
👉Over time, high blood sugar can damage blood vessels and the nerves that control your heart. People with diabetes are also more likely to have other conditions that raise the risk for heart disease: High blood pressure increases the force of blood through your arteries and can damage artery walls.
🤔What are the symptoms of diabetic heart disease?
👉If you have prediabetes or type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you should be aware of the symptoms of heart disease, including:
Chest pain, also known as angina, including feelings of chest tightness or pressure.
Shortness of breath.
Fainting or near fainting.
Fluttering in your chest.
🤔What are the 4 most common cardiovascular diseases?
👉4 of the main types are described on this page.
Coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease occurs when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle is blocked or reduced. ...
Strokes and TIAs. ...
Peripheral arterial disease. ...
Aortic disease.
🤔What are the cardiovascular diseases?
👉Cardiovascular diseases are conditions that affect the structures or function of your heart, such as:
Abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias.
Aorta disease and Marfan syndrome.
Congenital heart disease.
Coronary artery disease (narrowing of the arteries)
Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
Heart attack.
🤔What organs are affected by diabetes mellitus?
👉Type 2 diabetes affects many major organs, including your heart, blood vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys. Also, factors that increase the risk of diabetes are risk factors for other serious chronic diseases.
🤔How long can you live with heart disease and diabetes?
👉On average, 50-year-old women with diabetes: Have a life expectancy of 26.5 years -- 8.2 years less than that of other women. Develop heart disease in 19.6 years -- 8.4 years sooner than other women. Live with heart disease for 6.8 years.
🤔How can you reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes?
👉Traditional anti-hyperglycaemic drugs have helped to improve glycaemic control without reducing cardiovascular complications, but novel agents such as sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT)-2 inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 receptor agonists have shown an effective reduction of adverse cardiovascular events.
🤔What is cardiovascular disease risk factors?
👉Risk factors for cardiovascular disease are particular habits, behaviors, circumstances or conditions that increase a person's risk of developing cardiovascular disease, including lack of exercise, unhealthy eating, smoking, diabetes, age and family history.
🤔How can you prevent cardiovascular disease?
👉Fortunately, there are many things you can do to reduce your chances of getting heart disease:
Control your blood pressure. ...
Keep your cholesterol and triglyceride levels under control. ...
Stay at a healthy weight. ...
Eat a healthy diet. ...
Get regular exercise. ...
Limit alcohol. ...
Don't smoke. ...
Manage stress.
🤔What is diabetic heart failure?
👉People who have Type 2 diabetes, characterized by elevated blood sugar levels, are two to four times more likely to develop heart failure than someone without diabetes. But heart failure, a condition in which the heart fails to efficiently pump oxygenated blood through the body, also is a risk factor for diabetes.
🤔Which type of heart failure is commonly associated with diabetes?
👉Patients with diabetes mellitus have >2× the risk for developing heart failure (HF; HF with reduced ejection fraction and HF with preserved ejection fraction).
🤔Do diabetics feel heart attacks?
👉Diabetes can affect your nerves and make heart attacks painless or “silent.” A silent heart attack means that you may not have any warning signs, or they may be very mild. Your health care provider might need to do special tests to see whether you've had a heart attack.
🤔What is the difference between heart disease and cardiovascular disease?
👉Heart disease is the same thing as cardiac disease, but it is not the same thing as cardiovascular disease (CVD). Cardio refers to the heart and vascular refers to all the blood vessels in the body. Cardiovascular disease refers to disease of the heart or blood vessels.
🤔What are the 6 types of cardiovascular disease?
👉Six types of heart disease
Coronary artery disease or CAD. CAD is the most common form of heart disease. ...
Heart attack or myocardial infarction. ...
Heart failure, otherwise known as congestive heart failure. ...
Heart valve disease. ...
Heart muscle disease or cardiomyopathy. ...
Abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmia.
🤔What are the signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease?
👉chest pain.
pain, weakness or numb legs and/or arms.
breathlessness.
very fast or slow heartbeat, or palpitations.
feeling dizzy, lightheaded or faint.
fatigue.
swollen limbs.