Having diabetes can increase your risk of developing high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems, because diabetes adversely affects the arteries and can cause atherosclerosis \u2013 a narrowing of the arteries. This can cause high blood pressure, which if not treated, can lead to further blood vessel damage, stroke, heart failure, heart attack or kidney failure.<\/p>\n
High blood pressure can also increase the risk of diabetes complications such as diabetic eye and kidney problems.<\/p>\n
What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?<\/strong><\/p>\n Usually, high blood pressure causes no symptoms. This is why it is so important to have your blood pressure checked on a regular basis, either during a visit to your doctor or diabetic nurse, or through home blood pressure monitoring \u2013 using equipment such as A&D\u2019s UA-767S device ideal for consumer home use.<\/p>\n This model makes it easy to track you blood pressure over time and features an Irregular Heartbeat Indicator and World Hypertension Society blood pressure classification index.<\/p>\n Information on how to correctly measure blood pressure can be found on the British Hypertension Society website. At\u00a0\u00a336 the monitor can be purchased here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having diabetes can increase your risk of developing high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems, because diabetes adversely affects the arteries and can cause atherosclerosis \u2013 a narrowing of the arteries. This can cause high blood pressure, which if not treated, can lead to further blood vessel damage, stroke, heart failure, heart attack or kidney … Continue reading “Blood Pressure And Diabetes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53,2],"tags":[61,60,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}