Does type 2 diabetes cause high blood pressure?
Why is diabetes on the list of risk factors? Almost 9 million Americans now have diabetes, and there are more than 600,000 new cases every year. About 89,000 Americans died from diabetes in 2000. The most common type of diabetes, and the kind you can do something about, is called adult-onset or Type 2 diabetes. It usually develops in adulthood, usually doesn’t require insulin for its treatment, and is diagnosed when your morning blood sugar is over about 120 mg/dl. Being overweight is one of the major predisposing factors of Type 2 diabetes. Weight loss, especially if it is accompanied by increased exercise, often reverses many of the health problems associated with this type of diabetes, and may return you to a completely normal blood sugar level. (At this point you no longer have the diabetes diagnosis, but you are susceptible to it, and it will return if you regain the weight.) High blood pressure, which often goes together with Type 2 diabetes, usually returns to normal with w...