There’s lots to know concerning the hyperlink between diabetes and coronary heart illness, and the information might change your life. The quote in our headline is from an nameless creator, but it surely applies to all of us.
Mark this yr’s Coronary heart Week (Could 6-12) by becoming a member of a Diabetes Australia webinar on Thursday evening, Could 9, from 7pm-8pm. It provides you with the possibility to study coronary heart well being from a panel of individuals together with somebody who lives with diabetes, a GP, and a credentialled diabetes educator.
Within the upcoming version of Diabetes Australia’s Circle Journal, you possibly can examine Nihal, an lively 80-year-old man who was recognized with kind 2 diabetes greater than 20 years in the past. He has labored arduous to handle his situation with tablets, weight loss program, and train.
About 4 years in the past he fell in his backyard. The paramedics who attended him have been so involved by his ECG readings that he was rushed to hospital the place he underwent emergency coronary heart bypass surgical procedure. The operation was profitable, and Nihal is now again taking part in tennis, strolling frequently and having fun with abroad journey together with his spouse.
Whereas Nihal was conscious of a robust household historical past of coronary heart illness, he didn’t know that dwelling with diabetes additional elevated his danger. He’s now urging others who dwell with diabetes to search out out extra about diabetes, coronary heart illness and their very own particular person danger.
This week’s Diabetes Australia webinar will cowl matters reminiscent of:
- The hyperlink between diabetes and coronary heart illness
- Causes and indicators of coronary heart illness
- Understanding your danger of coronary heart illness
- Sensible steering for higher coronary heart well being
- Experiences of individuals dwelling with diabetes and their coronary heart well being
- Who can assist and the right way to entry assist
- The function of vitamin, meals, bodily exercise and self-monitoring to enhance well being and effectively being
This is a vital webinar that has the potential to alter the best way you reside and make it easier to forestall, relatively than deal with, coronary heart illness.
Pleased Coronary heart Week!
