Can diabetes and high blood pressure be related?
Yes , but high blood pressure is more dangerous than diabetes. High blood pressure (hypertension) is an important risk factor for the development and worsening of many complications of diabetes, including diabetic eye disease and kidney disease. It affects up to 60% of people with diabetes. Having diabetes increases your risk of developing high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems, because diabetes adversely affects the arteries, predisposing them to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Atherosclerosis can cause high blood pressure, which if not treated, can lead to blood vessel damage, stroke, heart failure, heart attack, or kidney failure. Compared to people with normal blood pressure readings, men and women with hypertension have an increased risk of: Coronary artery disease (heart disease) Strokes Peripheral vascular disease (hardening of the arteries in the legs and feet) Heart failure Even high yet normal blood pressure or pre-hypertension (defined as 120-139/ 80-89) impacts your health. Studies show that people with normal yet high range blood pressure readings, over a 10 year period of follow up time, had a two to three fold increased risk of heart disease. Tin
Can high blood pressure cause diabetes?
Yes it could.
Can a diabetic with high blood pressure donate blood?
According to the American Red Cross Blood Donor Eligibility: Medications & Health page:Blood Pressure (High or Low)High Blood Pressure - Acceptable as long as your blood pressure is below 180 systolic (first number) and below 100 diastolic (second number) at the time of donation. Medications for high blood pressure do not disqualify you from donating.Low Blood Pressure - Acceptable as long as you feel well when you come to donate, and your blood pressure is at least 90/50 (systolic/diastolic).Diabetics who are well controlled on insulin or oral medications are eligible to donate.
High blood pressure and gestational diabetes?
Yep -- had both with my first pregnancy, requiring medication for BP and insulin for GD. Having a history of GD makes you all the more likely (66% chance, according to the diabetes education classes I attended last time) to have it with the pregnancies that follow, so you're wise to be proactive! Your doctor will likely prescribe Aldomet (methyldopa) for blood pressure as a first line of defense, moving on to other medications only if your body doesn't adequately respond to it. As for your blood sugar, since you know you have a history of borderline GD, I'd ask for the one-hour GTT (glucose tolerance test) now -- regardless of how far along you are -- because the sooner you can identify your body's level of insulin resistance, the sooner you can start taking steps to protect yourself and the baby! If you don't pass the one-hour GTT, they'll do a 3-hour test just to be sure. If you don't pass that one, your OB will likely recommend an eating plan to see whether diet changes alone can get your blood sugars back in line and ask you to start checking your levels with a glucometer. If that doesn't work, you'll likely be put on insulin. The bad news: it's no fun popping pills and sticking yourself in the fingers and tummy with needles. The good news: it puts the power to ensure you and your baby have the healthiest possible birth *in your hands.* Remember, whatever it is, it's a few months of making small changes that can benefit your baby for a lifetime... :) [Since this is already an epic-length response,] please send me a private message if you like, and I'll fill you in on all the things *you* can do to help yourself with these issues before the medical interventions come into play!
Which condition is worse, high blood pressure or diabetes, and why?
This is a little bit like asking if it is worse to be shot or to be stabbed. They are both dangerous. The common thing about each of them is it is not the conditions themselves that we worry about, but rather what they can do. When uncontrolled, both diabetes and high blood pressure are huge risk factors for heart attack and stroke.Remember that there are two forms of diabetes, type 1 and type 2. Type 1 diabetes is a different animal, in that if it is not treated, it is rapidly fatal. I assume you are asking about the far more common type 2 diabetes.High blood pressure (hypertension) is more likely to be acutely dangerous. If it gets high enough, it can cause acute damage to the heart and kidneys, and can lead to burst blood vessels in the brain. Out of control blood pressure is more likely to land you in the hospital than out of control type 2 diabetes.Type 2 diabetes is usually not something that causes rapid onset problems, but when not controlled leads to a host of issues with the heart, kidneys, brain, eyes, and nervous system.My general experience is that hypertension is easier to control than type 2 diabetes, most of the time. Diabetics require more comprehensive lifestyle management than h hypertensives do. Also, the great majority of type 2 diabetics also have hypertension, so they get the worst of both worlds as it is.
Can a diabetic person with High Blood Pressure be Vegan, and healthy?
Oh, I forgot to mention the best part for my transition! No more painful (and gross) bowel movements!!!! It all flows so easily now, and my time on the "throne" is much shorter and pleasant!
Is it true that high blood pressure medicine can cause diabetes?
Usually not, with maybe two exceptions:-people using of a Thiazide diuretic agent against high blood pressure have a small excess risk of developing diabetes, but only if it causes a lowering of serum potassium levels, not if this was prevented.-people on Beta blocker still very much prescribed but by some considered to be obsolete as a first line anti-hypertensive med will develop more new onset diabetes.From Diuretic Treatment of HypertensionPatients who received thiazide diuretics were not at greater risk for the subsequent development of diabetes than the subjects with hypertension who were not receiving any antihypertensive therapy (27). In this study, only subjects with hypertension who were taking β-blockers had a 28% higher risk of subsequent diabetes. If a high-dose diuretic has a negative effect on glucose metabolism, it may be related to hypokalemia (29–31). Analysis of the SHEP data showed that each 0.5 mEq/L decrease in serum potassium during the 1st year of treatment was associated with a 45% higher adjusted diabetes risk (32). Potassium supplementation or combination of thiazide with ACE inhibitor or potassium-sparing agents might prevent thiazide-induced diabetes (33).People with diabetes have more chance of developing high blood pressure, and people having high blood pressure are at a higher risk of developing diabetes.From High Blood Pressure - American Diabetes Association®1 in 3 non diabetics have high blood pressure, in diabetics this is 2 in 3.The Metabolic syndrome comprising of high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and elevated serum lipids is a combination of both diabetes and high blood pressure we see more and more often because of the present obesity epidemic.