Why does diabetes cause the coronary heart disease?

Being overweight or obese can affect your ability to manage your diabetes and increase your risk for many health problems, including heart disease and high blood pressure. If you are overweight, a healthy eating plan with reduced calories often will lower your glucose levels and reduce your need for medications. read more

Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke Having diabetes means that you are more likely to develop heart disease and have a greater chance of a heart attack or a stroke. People with diabetes are also more likely to have certain conditions, or risk factors, that increase the chances of having heart disease or stroke, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol. read more

Diabetes is treatable, but even when glucose levels are under control it greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. read more

Two theories on this: 1. Sugar is a powerful oxidizer. Anyone that has used sugar in cooking can attest to this. The theory is that high blood sugar levels oxidize LDL particles which makes them particularly nasty in the body. read more