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How does diabetes contribute to CVD?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Diabetes contributes to CVD by its effects. The most common type of diabetes is type two. Type two is mainly caused by lifestyle factors such as inadequate physical activity and poor nutrition, such as high sugar and fat intake. Diabetes contributes to CVD because excess sugar and fat intake causes plaque to build up in the arteries and hence the reason people with high cholesterol levels or being overweight or obese are of high risk for a heat attack or stroke.

So basically the factors which first caused type two diabetes are also causing risk of CVD and other chronic diseases because of the lifestyle choices.

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