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How can diabetic patients prevent Aortic Dissection?
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How can diabetic patients prevent Aortic Dissection?

There is no direct link between diabetes and AD. Healthy lifestyle may be relevant to both conditions and learning to live with hypertension and diabetes may lead to lowering of the risk of experiencing AD.

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So, if you're diabetic and now you have hypertension and had an aortic dissection, it's kind of it doubly important to control the risk factors. So diabetes, you know that you have healing, if it depends on how controlled your diabetes, you may have healing problems and things like that with wounds. So it's really important to control diabetes in terms of diet, keeping the sugar down, and keeping the fat intake down, and most importantly now after the aortic sections, keeping salt intake down. So diet modification is important, consulting with your GP or nutritionist and dietitian is really, really important to make sure that you control all these other risk factors that are controllable or somehow easier to manage than other risk factors.

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