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Blood pressure impacts type 2 diabetes risk: study

Women with high blood pressure (hypertension) or increasing blood pressure are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes compared with women with low blood pressure, researchers from Boston report.

Lead investigator Dr. David Conen from Harvard Medical School told Reuters Health that this association is independent of obesity and the metabolic syndrome — a cluster of cardiovascular disease risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and high blood sugar levels.

Although several studies have shown close ties between hypertension and type 2 diabetes, few have looked at the relationship between blood pressure levels and the later development of type 2 diabetes, Conen and colleagues explain in the European Heart Journal.

via: MyHeartCentral.com

Savour this chocolate for healthy heart

Now, chocoholics have a justified reason to savour their favourite sweet, for a Canadian company has developed a chocolate that lowers cholesterol.

Developed by Innovative Life Sciences, the ‘Heart Chocolate’ contains an ingredient called CM-X, a combination of cinnamon and bitter melon, which the company claims can lower blood sugar and cholesterol.

The company said the product is particularly beneficial for people with Type-2 diabetes, as it contains no sugar, as well as for those with high cholesterol.

‘It works to keep your heart healthy while satisfying the most sinful chocolate craving,’ the Daily Mail quoted a spokesman for the company, as saying.

via rediff news

Note: Next month is Diabetes Awareness Month and DITN will take a break during that time. There will be at least one diabetes article posted each day.