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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes and heart failure have been linked time and again, due to the body’s failure to control blood sugar levels, but new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests a novel mechanism by which risks increase.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among diabetics. When the liver can’t produce enough insulin to match rising blood glucose levels, the excess sugar taxes the heart’s ability to pump. Sugars develop into plaques, which can lead to atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries. But now researchers suggest this sugar surplus inflicts a different kind of damage, namely, tiny repeated blows to the muscle over time.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/diabete...-new-link-tiny-compounding-blows-organ-302424
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among diabetics. When the liver can’t produce enough insulin to match rising blood glucose levels, the excess sugar taxes the heart’s ability to pump. Sugars develop into plaques, which can lead to atherosclerosis, or a hardening of the arteries. But now researchers suggest this sugar surplus inflicts a different kind of damage, namely, tiny repeated blows to the muscle over time.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/diabete...-new-link-tiny-compounding-blows-organ-302424
