How diabetes causes heart attacks

A recent survey conducted by Washington University in St. Louis, may explain why more than 75% of diabetics die of heart disease (Journal of the American Academy of Cardiology, February 7, 2006). Many diabetic heart muscle using a higher percentage of energy fat diabetics have increased considerably the risk of heart attacks.

The source of the power of the heart muscle is mostly sugars and fats, and to a lesser extent, protein. The muscles are much more oxygen to process the fat as you want to work with sugar. Outside of the blood flow to the heart of the heart muscle, which is the source of the great arteries are arteries, diabetes, high blood sugar levels fell because about the form and to reduce the diameter of coronary angioplasty (probes) balloon catheters, blood arteries. The need for increased blood flow by very high in fat and diabetic patients of heart attacks, heart and sudden death endangers the glass tube narrowed arteries blood from the operational store. Greater use of oxidizing oxygen increases, which continues to damage the blood vessels in the lining of blood levels.



The second Swedish study shows that many want to have access to, these diabetic, should be done only when they have had a heart attack. Researchers at the levels of sugar, the blood vessels in the register, men who have had heart attacks and then tolerance studies of sugar, and three months later. They found that 35% had tolerance tests of sugar diabetic hospital discharge, and 40% had altered sugar tolerance studies, three months later (the Lancet, volume 356, 2002).

Thus, 40% of people who have heart attacks are diabetic, though you may not know. Many diabetics ' blood tests were normal HBA1C, the standard test for measurement of diabetic control. In addition, patients, who were known to a larger number of diabetic patients was the sudden death of their heart attack than those who are not diabetic. Authors recommend that all people with diabetes, heart attacks to be tested.