Researchers report clear shift in arterial diseases in diabetes (High blood sugar and triglycerides encourage peripheral artery disease)

Medical Xpress / University of Gothenburg / The Lancet Regional Health - Europe ^ | March 28, 2024 | Araz Rawshani et al / Tarik Avdic et al

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There has been a redistribution in the risk of arterial disease in type 1 and 2 diabetes. The risks of heart attack and stroke have decreased significantly, while complications in more peripheral vessels have increased in relative importance, according to studies.

The researchers studied two decades of disease trends for virtually all peripheral arterial diseases.

The studies include data on 34,263 individuals with type 1 diabetes and 655,250 individuals with type 2 diabetes from the Swedish National Diabetes Register between 2001 and 2020.

In relative terms, there has been a gradual shift in risk from arterial diseases in the central organs, such as heart attack and stroke, toward complications in peripheral vessels.

The results show great potential in terms of modifiable risk factors in type 1 diabetes. With closer checks on long-term blood sugar and blood pressure, the risk of several peripheral arterial complications can be reduced by 30–50%. These complications include carotid artery calcification, calcification of the abdominal aorta and peripheral vessels in the lower extremities, and small vessel disease in the feet.

However, patients with type 1 diabetes have very little to gain from lowering the current guideline values for cardiometabolic risk factors such as BMI, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, or improved renal function.

For type 2 diabetes, the analyses show that so-called bad cholesterol plays a major role in carotid artery calcification, and that lower levels of triglycerides significantly reduce the risk of peripheral arterial disease.

In both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, long-term blood sugar appears to be by far the most important marker for peripheral arterial disease, which clearly differs from central arterial disease. At the same time, elevated long-term blood sugar appears to reinforce the aorta and significantly reduce the risk of hernia and rupture of the inner wall of the artery.

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Interestingly, some calcium plaques that high blood sugar causes helps “reinforce the aorta and significantly reduce the risk of hernia and rupture of the inner wall of the artery.”

Blood sugar and triglyceride reduction can prevent peripheral artery disease, though.

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[Delta 21]

Tons of conclusive evidence that sugars kill us yet our food is nothing but sugars and empty carbs. High Fructose Corn Syrup drinks are cheaper than the water they are made from.

[Irish Eyes]

Interesting...thanks

[bgill]

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