Smoking and diabetes

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If you ask the question of what diseases can be caused by smoking, including doctors, it is usually referred to as lung cancer, less heart disease. With respect to the other diseases, it is usually assumed that their occurrence and during the impact genetics, ecology and many others that do not depend on the individual factors. The suggestion that smoking may have some influence, for example, a disease known as diabetes mellitus, even among some physicians may cause the apparent bewilderment.

Distributed by the view that diabetes – are genetically caused disease, which can collapse person at any age, and this should be the logical conclusion that smoking is not with it.

Representations of the population that does diabetes vary extremely. Some people think that it is non-hazardous condition, almost comicality reduced to a denial of the sweet, others view it as a severe pathology that leads to disability and early death, in fact, not to treat. Diabetes mellitus – a very common disease that lead to a considerable proportion of deaths from cardiovascular disease. Most developed countries, and not just the developed countries, note at the epidemic of diabetes. According to American figures, the first type of diabetes suffers every 250 th resident, and diabetes type two, each 25-second or even every 15 th.

Worldwide the number of registered patients with diabetes steadily increasing. For example, in Ukraine for 15 years from 1980 to 1995, it has more than doubled and now stands at about 1 million people, approximately every 50-th Ukrainian diabetes.

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HDL – good cholesterol and how to increase

Published in Cholesterol Tips, Healthy Style, Healthy Tips

In general, we know cholesterol mainly in a negative aspect. In fact, we really need cholesterol to make bile salts, hormones and vitamin D. Cholesterol is usually created by the liver. Cholesterol remains on the walls of arteries, if you have a very high level of cholesterol in the blood. Basically, There are 2 types of cholesterol: low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL).
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LDL cholesterol

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LDL cholesterol

LDL cholesterol

Cholesterol is not soluble in water. Cholesterol in the blood is in the form of complexes with specific protein carriers, the so-called apolipoproteidami. Low density lipoproteins (Low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) also known as bad cholesterol. High-density lipoproteins (High-density lipoprotein, or HDL) is also known as «good» cholesterol. Counting the total blood cholesterol is carried out by blood.

LDL bad cholesterol
When too many «bad» cholesterol circulates in the blood, it will slowly grow on the inner walls of arteries. Together with other substances to form the so-called plaques, making the arteries narrower and less flexible. This disease is called atherosclerosis. Blocked arteries of atherosclerotic plaque can lead to stroke or heart attack.

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