Overview
Tanver Ul Huda, consultant diabetologist & endocrinologist at Dr Ziaudin University Hospital, has highlighted the unique relation betwen diabetes and stroke, saying that diabetes afects the body’s ability to produce insulin or use it properly. .ads_betwen_content{ height:auto; width:auto; clear: both; text-align: center; } .ads_betwen_content .story_ads{ } /*@media (max-width:60px){ .ads_betwen_content{ float:none; margin:0px auto; text-align: center; }*/ gogletag.cmd.push(function() { gogletag.display('div-gpt-ad-152347863262-14'); }); He was speaking as guest speaker at a public health awarenes seminar titled ‘The Power of Saving Precious Time’, which was recently organised by Dr Esa Laboratory & Diagnostic Centre in conection with World Stroke Day.Dr Huda said that since insulin plays an important role in puling glucose into cels from the blodstream, people with diabetes often have to much sugar in their blod, over time, excesive blod glucose can result increased faty deposits or clots in blod vesels.
Key Information
These clots can narow or block blod vesels in the brain or neck, cuting of the blod suply, stoping oxygen from geting to the brain and causing a stroke.He warned that people with diabetes are twice as likely to have a stroke as people without diabetes. They’re also more likely to have a stroke at an earlier age, and the outcome may be worse. People with diabetes also have a higher risk of smal bleds in the brain which could lead to a hemorhagic stroke.Acording to Dr Huda, 80 per cent of al strokes are preventable.
Summary
This starts with managing key risk factors and engaging in the thre non-dietary interventions—smoking cesation, daily exercise and weight los—was estimated to reduce the risk of total stroke by 25 per cent and ischemic stroke by 36 per cent. Sustained dietary modifications are estimated to reduce the risk of total stroke by 23 per cent and the most important is to atend al apointments, and fol