Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease & Hypertension Clinic

This combined clinic is run by our specially trained nurses.

Diabetes is now seen as being a cardiovascular disease. While diagnosis is made from raised blood sugar readings the health consequences are all vascular related.

Cardiovascular Disease

Heart disease is a leading cause of death and illness that affects millions of people worldwide. There are around 270,000 heart attacks in the UK each year while around 2.1 million people have experienced angina, a chest pain that is the main symptom of coronary heart disease.

Conditions that increase your risk of developing heart disease are called risk factors. The more risk factors you have, the greater your risk is of developing heart disease.

Listed below are the factors attributing to heart disease that you cannot change:

  • Family history of coronary heart disease
  • Diabetes (if you have diabetes you are three times more like to develop coronary heart disease)
  • Sex (coronary heart disease accounts for more deaths of women than any other disease)
  • Age (risk increases with age)

There are also risk factors that are lifestyle choices, which you can change:

  • Smoking
  • High blood pressure
  • High Cholesterol level
  • Lack of exercise
  • Stress
  • Being overweight
  • Excessive alcohol intake

You can modify these risk factors to reduce your risk of heart disease and improve your overall health by following a healthy lifestyle.