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Reducing Cardiovascular risk in Diabetes.
Dr Prashant Vas, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about the risk to you Cardio-Vascular System with Diabetes and how these can be reduced. He talks about the risk are not just to the heart but everywhere which has a circulation and a blood supply. These areas include eyes, kidney, brain and the heart as well as the legs and arms.
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Diabetes can lead to the development of problems within the blood vessels, and depending on where the blood vessels are affected, you can get symptoms related to the region. For example, if the circulation in the heart is affected, you would develop heart related problems. Likewise, you can get brain problems, strokes for example, but also problems within the eye of people with diabetes, the diabetic retinopathy as well as kidney problems are understood to be because of circulatory problems affecting the very fine blood vessels. Managing this, of course, would include very specialist care, But a lot of focus early on is about preventing this damage and the prevention of cardiovascular problems includes ensuring good diabetes control, ensuring good blood pressure control and good cholesterol controls. are the three fundamental pillars of delaying cardiovascular disease in diabetes.
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