Reduce Blood Sugar

Lifes Simple 7 focuses on the seven steps you can take to make a difference in your health: control cholesterol, manage blood pressure, reduce blood sugar, stop smoking, lose weight, get active and eat better. For more information, visit www.heart.org/MyLifeCheck.

The American Heart Association considers diabetes one of the six major controllable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. In fact, adults with diabetes are two to four times more likely to have heart disease or a stroke than adults without diabetes.

Diabetes is treatable, but even when glucose levels are under control it greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. In fact, most people with diabetes die of some form of heart or blood vessel disease.

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