Diabetes

Heart is one of the most important organ of our body. Our body contains 5 to 7 litres of blood. Blood carries essential nutrients, sugar and oxygen to each cell of the body. Heart is the organ which pumps the blood to all organs of the body. Human heart beats 70 - 80 times every minute to pump the entire blood in your body. Each pump of the heart is able to push 100-150 ml of blood into the arteries. Diabetes is a disease which damages the blood vessels by shrining them and causing plaque inside these blood vessels. Hypertension caused hardening of the blood vessels thereby reducing their capability to expand when more blood is needed by the body.

Blood is supplied to the heart through 3 major arteries called Coronary arteries. If these arteries shrink due to diabetes and plaques are formed inside them then the supply of blood to the heart is reduced. This results in a heart attack.

The best way to prevent heart disease or heart attack in diabetic patients is to have good control over blood sugar through a combination of medicines, diet and exercise. Hypertensive patients should take proper medication to keep their blood pressure within normal range to prevent heart disease.

Diagnosis & Treatment

Diagnosis of Heart Disease is done by Physician through clinical examination and tests like Blood Sugar fasting & PP, HbA1C, Urine Test etc. Other tests like ECG, TMT and Echocardiography are also needed to diagnose heart disease.

One must keep the blood sugar levels within normal range most of the times. The HbA1C levels should be consistently below 7. Despite good sugar control there would be some effect on the blood vessels of the heart. In order to offset this effect your doctor may prescribe you some medications like blood thinners etc. Regular aerobic exercise would help in expanding the blood vessels thereby improving the supply of blood to the heart and preventing a heart attack.

Improving your dietery habits goes a long way in preventing heart disease. Eating lots of fruits, vegetables in raw form with nuts and seeds will increase your energy levels. This will keep your blood sugar within normal limits. Increased energy would help you in exercising more and maintaining a good muscular body. This would keep the heart disease at bay even in diabetic patients. Hypertensive patients need to cut down on white salt and increase their daily exercise to atleast 1 hour of brisk walk.

Best Doctors and Cost

Dr Munendra Kumar is one of the best specialist for the management of heart health and preventing heart disease. The Medical Management of Heart Health is not very expensive and you can expect to get all the tests like Blood and Urine Test, ECG, TMT, Echo within Rs. 10,000. The medicines are also not very expensive as the main line of treatment is proper diet and regular exercise.

Diabetes is the mother of all diseases like heart disease, kidney disease, stroke. In diabetic person, the blood vessels start narrowing and the supply of blood to different parts of the body gets reduced over time. The person will feel fatigued most of the time. After 10-15 years of diabetes, men would lose their libido and the problem of erectile dysfunction would start. Sexual life would be disturbed. Grab your life before it is too late. Diabetes will not let you live and doctors will not let you die but the later life of a diabetic person can be very painful.

Diabetes can lead to huge medical bills as the treatment of diseases caused by diabetes is very expensive. Heart disease, kidney failure, liver failure or stroke can cause medical bills running into several lacs of rupees.

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