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Study Links Heart Risk Factors to Diabetes
Study Links Heart Risk Factors to Diabetes -- Posted by Gumbo on 02-16-05 05:26
Study Links Heart Risk Factors to Diabetes
For decades, people with so-called juvenile diabetes have been told that
controlling their blood sugar was all they could do to prevent nerve damage
that can lead to the amputation of a foot or leg.
But a large new British study suggests they should follow the same advice
given to other diabetics: Don't smoke, and watch your weight and blood
pressure.
These heart disease risk factors were almost as important as blood-sugar
levels in predicting which diabetics would develop nerve problems.
In light of the findings, diabetes experts said cholesterol-lowering statin
drugs and other heart disease treatments should be studied to see if they
can help stave off or slow the progression of nerve damage in diabetics.
Nerve damage is a painful and disabling complication caused by poor
circulation in the hands, arms, feet and legs. A third or more of type 1
diabetics develop serious nerve damage, and many undergo an amputation.
British researchers selected 1172 type 1 patients throughout Europe and
monitored their smoking habits, body weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol
and triglyceride levels over 7 years. Nearly a quarter of them developed
nerve damage during that time.
After adjusting for how well patients' blood-sugar levels were controlled,
scientists found an apparent connection between nerve damage and risk
factors for heart disease. For example, patients who had high blood pressure
were twice as likely to develop nerve problems.
The study, led by Dr. Solomon Tesfaye of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in
England, appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"It emphasizes that you have to treat the whole patient," said Dr. Martin
Abrahamson, acting chief medical officer of the Joslin Diabetes Center in
Boston, who was not connected to the study. "You can't just treat the
glucose. You also have to look at all the cardiovascular risk factors." This
article was prepared by Cardiovascular Week editors from staff and other
reports. Copyright 2005, Cardiovascular Week via NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net.
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