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Blood pressure leads to diabetes


People with high blood pressure are two and a half times more likely to develop diabetes, suggests new research.
This adds to evidence that GPs should check hypertensive patients closely for other signs of the disabling disease.
The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that people taking beta-blocker medication for heart problems seemed also to be at higher risk of developing diabetes.
However, a top UK diabetes expert said this should not discourage patients from taking these sorts of drugs - as the risks from the heart problems greatly outweighed those from diabetes.
The study was carried out at Johns Hopkins University in the US, looking at 12,550 people aged 45 to 64 who either had heart disease or had some of the risk factors for developing it.
None had diagnosed diabetes to begin with.
Six years later, 1,146 of them had been diagnosed as diabetic. Of these, approximately half had high blood pressure.

Among those with high blood pressure, those taking beta blockers were 28% more likely to develop diabetes than their counterparts who were not on medication.
Professor Stephanie Amiel, of King's College London, suggested that closer monitoring of middle-aged and older patients with blood pressure problems might lead to earlier detection of diabetes in some instances.
She said: "What we know is that diabetics who have high blood pressure have a far greater risk of developing complications.
 

 

Short-Term Exercise Reduces Insulin Resistance In Hypertensive African-American Women

A short-term exercise
program can significantly increase Insulin sensitivity in African-American women with hypertension and Insulin resistance, according to a report in the December issue of Hypertension.

Dr. Michael D. Brown and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania enrolled 12obese, hypertensive, African-American women in a 7-dayexercise program. The daily program consisted of a10minute warm-up consisting of walking and stretching ,followed by 30 minutes of aerobic exercise (treadmill walking or cycle ergometry  ), 5 minutes of rest and 20additional minutes of aerobic exercise.

The authors "...found that Insulin sensitivity was improved by 58% after 7 consecutive days of exercise in sedentary, obese, hypertensive African American women." In addition, they observed "..20% and 25%
reductions in fasting and glucose-stimulated plasma Insulin levels." The magnitude of these benefits "...is
comparable to that observed after 6 months of exercise
training."

Although previous studies have demonstrated similar effects of daily exercise on Insulin resistance, "...this is the first demonstration that exercise improves Insulin sensitivity in African American women," according to the Pittsburgh team. This finding is particularly important, given the high rates of Insulin resistance, diabetes and hypertension observed in African-American women, the authors say

DIABETES AND COLON CANCER/INSULIN RESISTANCE

A recent report from Harvard Medical School shows that both diabetes and colon cancer can be caused by insulin resistance.

You are at increased risk for getting both diabetes and colon cancer if you:/ are overweight,/ exercise too little,/ eat too much fat, red meat and processed foods that have had the fiber removed,/ and eat too little fruits and vegetables. All these factors interfere with your ability to respond to insulin/ increasing your production of insulin which can cause diabetes and colon cancer.

You can have lots of insulin and still be diabetic. The cells in your body are like balloons full of fluid. On the surface of each cell are small hairs called insulin receptors. Insulin cannot do its job of driving sugar from the bloodstream into cells until it first attaches on these insulin receptors. Most adult-onset diabetics have normal or increased amounts of insulin, but cannot respond to insulin/ because they eat too much fat and too little fiber/ and are too fat,/ which decrease the number of insulin receptors. These same factors also can cause colon cancer by blocking your ability to respond to insulin so that you have too much insulin/ and insulin causes colon cells to grow and colon cancer cells to grow rapidly. The people who are most likely to get diabetes and colon cancer/ store fat primarily in their bellies. This raises blood insulin levels by preventing your cells from responding to insulin. So, to decrease your chances of developing diabetes and colon cancer, eat more fruits and vegetables/ eat less fat and meat, exercise and don't be overweight.

 

Comment

If we apply Islamic instructions will prevent as will    as treat the factors which has some causes of hypertension

Weight loss –Smoking cessation –Regular exercise –Cupping –Day shift –Alcohol cessation –Prevent stress –Moderate salt in diet –Early marriage