There’s rather a lot to know concerning the hyperlink between diabetes and coronary heart illness, and the information could change your life. The quote in our headline is from an nameless writer, however it applies to all of us.
Mark this yr’s Coronary heart Week (Might 6-12) by becoming a member of a Diabetes Australia webinar on Thursday night time, Might 9, from 7pm-8pm. It provides you with the prospect 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 plan, and train.
About 4 years in the past he fell in his backyard. The paramedics who attended him had 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 recurrently and having fun with abroad journey along with his spouse.
Whereas Nihal was conscious of a powerful household historical past of coronary heart illness, he didn’t know that residing with diabetes additional elevated his danger. He’s now urging others who stay 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 subjects comparable to:
- The hyperlink between diabetes and coronary heart illness
- Causes and indicators of coronary heart illness
- Understanding your danger of coronary heart illness
- Sensible steerage for higher coronary heart well being
- Experiences of individuals residing with diabetes and their coronary heart well being
- Who may help and how one can entry assist
- The function of diet, meals, bodily exercise and self-monitoring to enhance well being and properly being
This is a crucial webinar that has the potential to alter the way in which you reside and show you how to forestall, fairly than deal with, coronary heart illness.
Completely happy Coronary heart Week!
