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Diabetes or diabetes is not the only threat facing when sugar levels in the blood increase. According to a recent study, excess blood sugar levels are also associated with an increased risk of damage to the heart.
A study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health showed that Hyperglycemia or excess sugar levels can damage the heart. This effect can even occur in people who have a history of heart disease was not previously.
Researchers uncover, increase levels of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is associated with an increase in protein troponin T (cTnT). HbA1c is an indicator of chronic hyperglycemia and diabetes, while high levels of cTnT indicate damage to the heart.
Findings published in the American College of Cardiology suggest, excess sugar in patients of diabetes closely associated with an increased risk of damage to the heart. Higher sugar levels increase the risk is greater, on the heart.
In observation of 9.662 volunteers, an increased risk of cardiovascular damage have been observed even when increased levels of sugar do not meet the criteria to be called diabetes. When all the participants did not have a history of heart disease.
"Usually the sugar does not directly relate to damage to the blood vessels, but in this research is directly damaging to the heart of sugar," said Prof. Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH, who led the study as cited from Medicalnewstoday, Tuesday (7/2/2012).
Diabetes or diabetes characterized by increased levels of blood sugar, especially type 2 is usually inflicted on many people fat. Fat itself had long been associated with an increased risk of various diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
