The main feature of diabetes is hyperglycemia, which is a chronic metabolic disease, so after suffering from diabetes, patients are mainly to control blood sugar, stabilize blood sugar, and reduce the chance of complications.
But what many patients do not understand is that in addition to controlling blood sugar, there are several other things to do well, so as to better reduce the chance of complications, if you do not do these things well, blood sugar will be difficult to control, which will increase the probability of complications.
So what exactly do diabetics need to do well?
Patients with diabetes who want to reduce the chance of complications must also do the following things.
1. Control blood pressure
Diabetes is easy to cause hypertension, this is because diabetic patients will have insulin resistance, it will easily cause an increase in blood pressure, which in turn will increase the probability of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and it is also easy to cause rupture of blood vessels because of hypertension.
According to relevant studies, if the average blood pressure of patients is reduced by 6 mm Hg, the incidence of cardiovascular death can be reduced by 18%. Therefore, patients with diabetes want to reduce the complications of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and also stabilize blood pressure.
2. Control blood lipids
Because insulin increases the activity of lipoproteins in the body, which in turn increases the amount of cholesterol in the blood, patients with diabetes are prone to abnormal blood lipids.
It can also lead to atherosclerosis due to high blood lipids, and even induce lesions of the brain, kidneys and retina in severe cases.
In addition, if the blood lipids in the body are too high, it will also increase the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction, so patients also need to control blood lipids every day.
3. Maintain a standard weight
Most patients with diabetes will experience obesity, these patients want to control blood sugar first need to lose weight, there are related studies found that if the patient's weight loss of 10%, not only can reduce blood pressure, but also can help improve blood lipids.
In addition, weight loss through exercise can also reduce blood sugar while losing weight, which is very beneficial for good health.
4. Quit smoking
Many patients with diabetes have the habit of smoking, even if diagnosed with diabetes, patients do not have the awareness to quit smoking, and long-term smoking, it is easy to cause complications.
This is because the viscosity of diabetic patients themselves is relatively high, it is easy to block, then if you continue to smoke, it will cause spasm and contraction of blood vessels, the viscosity of blood will increase, it is easy to cause tissue ischemia and hypoxia, which will lead to microvascular and macrovascular lesions, so diabetes needs to quit smoking in time.
It can be seen that for patients with diabetes, in addition to controlling blood sugar every day, it is also necessary to do the above-mentioned things to stabilize these indicators, which is very helpful for the stability of blood sugar and can also reduce the chance of complications in diabetic patients.
In addition, diabetic patients should also pay attention to adjusting their diet every day, try to eat less foods that are easy to raise blood sugar, and also adhere to moderate exercise according to their own conditions, and also regularly monitor blood sugar to observe changes in blood sugar to help better stabilize the condition.
In addition, it is also necessary to check the glycosylated hemoglobin regularly, which can monitor the changes in the patient's blood glucose in three months, which will be more conducive to controlling the disease.