Diabetes and Heart Disease: How to Manage Your Risk

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / March 15, 2024 / Abbott

If you or a loved one have diabetes, here are the four things you should know to protect your heart health.

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What's in: Prioritizing your health

What's out: Forgetting about preventive health.

When it comes to the ins and outs of knowing the connections between diabetes and heart disease, it can be confusing. People with diabetes have a higher risk of heart disease because of their chronic disease¹ - but there are things you can do to protect the heart.

Here is our "In and Out" list that can help guide what you do to lower your risk for heart disease if you or a loved one have diabetes.

What's in: Using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to watch your glucose levels.

Glucose levels and heart disease risk go hand in hand.

Continuous glucose monitors like our FreeStyle Libre CGM systems can help you watch patterns in your levels over time and take action to stabilize them in the moment. If you're living with diabetes, understanding glucose level trendlines is important for your health journey - especially when data suggests you're twice as likely to be diagnosed with heart disease compared with people who don't have diabetes.¹

If a person's glucose levels are constantly high, the heart's blood vessels and nerves can be damaged.¹

In comes a CGM. You can see your glucose levels, including where it has been and where it could go, throughout the day with this type of biowearable. As you move and eat, a CGM helps you watch out for when there is a sharp increase called a glucose spike - and how often that spike happens. If there's a noticeable pattern, CGM users can share* their CGM data with their healthcare provider (which our FreeStyle Libre systems do through LibreView in select countries**) to determine if there are any lifestyle changes that can help and if any tests are recommended.

Take Beth Marcello, for example. Beth is a retired teacher and mother who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and lives with heart failure. She started using the FreeStyle Libre and Abbott's CardioMEMS HF System and has had a much easier time managing her health.

"For me, my health is a numbers game. Looking at the numbers on my FreeStyle Libre app - which I check often - allows me to make better decisions about what and when I eat," she said. "That in turn, impacts my heart health and my CardioMEMS numbers."

"What's great is that not only can I make smarter decisions about what I do every day, but my doctors share this information, making the care I get very personal and connected."

What's out: Not planning out how you eat.

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