{"id":13132,"date":"2024-10-30T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:38:05","slug":"how-are-diabetes-and-heart-health-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/how-are-diabetes-and-heart-health-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are Diabetes and Heart Health Connected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person with diabetes is twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared to someone who doesn&#8217;t have diabetes. That&#8217;s because high blood sugar can damage the blood vessels and nerves around your heart. People with diabetes are more likely to have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>High LDL.<\/em> The &#8220;bad&#8221; cholesterol that causes plaque to build up in arteries.<\/li>\n<li><em>High blood pressure.<\/em> Having both diabetes and high blood pressure dramatically increases heart disease risk.<\/li>\n<li><em>High triglycerides and low HDL<\/em> (&#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol). A type of fat that builds up and stiffens arteries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are things you can do to help prevent diabetes and heart disease, starting with the diabetes ABCs:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> Get your A1C tested regularly to track your average blood sugar over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.<\/strong> Watch your blood pressure and keep it in the zone your health care provider recommends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C.<\/strong> Stay on top of your cholesterol levels. Keep them down with lifestyle changes and medication your provider may prescribe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t smoke. If you smoke, find a smoking cessation program and stick to it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, your doctor can help determine what tests to schedule to evaluate your heart&#8217;s current health and heart disease risk.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: American Diabetes Association; American Heart Association; Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person with diabetes is twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared to someone who doesn&#8217;t have diabetes. That&#8217;s because high blood sugar can damage the blood vessels and nerves around your heart. People with diabetes are more likely to have: High LDL. The &#8220;bad&#8221; cholesterol that causes plaque to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[637,778,378],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","tag-diabetes","tag-heart-health","tag-medicare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-1485050002.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-3pO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13138,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions\/13138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}