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Can high sugar levels cause high blood pressure?

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Can high sugar levels cause high blood pressure?

High sugar levels causes blood vessel damage, vascular remodelling leading to increased peripheral artery resistance. Also, body fluid volume increases in response to insulin resistance-induced hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia. Both increased peripheral vascular resistance and body fluid volume lead to increase in systemic blood pressure causing Hypertension.

Last updated on 04 Jul 2025

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How does Type II diabetes cause weight gain?

Diabetics have raised blood sugar and when there is a lot of excess blood sugar in our blood stream, it signals our body to put that excess sugar in storage. We can store some sugar in our liver and muscles, however, when these are full our body start to store the extra sugar as fat. This of course starts to cause weight gain.

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Why do they induce at 39 weeks with gestational diabetes?

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Can prediabetes cause weight loss?

Yes, although it need not be seen in every person.

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What is a sugar patient called?

Diabetic

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