“Can diabetes affect blood pressure?”
I am a 16 year old female and I have diabetes. Can diabetes affect blood pressure?
5 Answers
No
Long-term yes but only if your diabetes remains uncontrolled. Uncontrolled diabetes can damage the arteries around the heart causing them to harden and stiffen, a term called atherosclerosis. Thus, blood flow becomes more forceful trying to flow through such damaged blood vessels. In turn, people can develop high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, and possibly kidney failure.
If your diabetes is uncontrolled, it can cause damage in several organs, including your kidneys and your heart, and eventually cause hypertension (high blood pressure). The best that you can do to stay healthy is to keep your diabetes under control.
Yes. Over time, it can cause kidney damage which can raise blood pressure. Some diabetics have to go on dialysis when they are older. Many patients take an ACE inhibitor like Lisinopril to protect their kidneys.
Yes it can. anyone can get high BP whether they have diabetes or not. However people with diabetes are more likely to develop it because the diabetes, especially if poorly controlled, can cause hardening of the arteries so they cannot expand with pulses as needed. So keep your BS in control with a HbA1c less than 7% & I like to keep it below 6.5% & you will lessen your chances of developing high BP>
