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How To Manage Diabetes
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Knowing your diabetes ABCs will help you manage your blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol.
Stopping smoking, if you smoke will also help you manage your diabetes.
Working toward your ABC goals can help lower your chances of having a heart attack, stroke, or other diabetes problems.
A for the A1C test
The A1C test shows your average blood glucose level over the past 3 months. The A1C goal for many people with diabetes is below 7 percent. Ask your health care team what your goal should be.
B for Blood pressure
The blood pressure goal for most people with diabetes is below 140/90 mm Hg. Ask what your goal should be.
C for Cholesterol
You have two kinds of cholesterol in your blood: LDL and HDL. LDL or “bad” cholesterol can build up and clog your blood vessels.
Too much bad cholesterol can cause a heart attack or stroke.
Stopping smoking, if you smoke will also help you manage your diabetes.
Working toward your ABC goals can help lower your chances of having a heart attack, stroke, or other diabetes problems.
A for the A1C test
The A1C test shows your average blood glucose level over the past 3 months. The A1C goal for many people with diabetes is below 7 percent. Ask your health care team what your goal should be.
B for Blood pressure
The blood pressure goal for most people with diabetes is below 140/90 mm Hg. Ask what your goal should be.
C for Cholesterol
You have two kinds of cholesterol in your blood: LDL and HDL. LDL or “bad” cholesterol can build up and clog your blood vessels.
Too much bad cholesterol can cause a heart attack or stroke.
HDL or “good” cholesterol helps remove the “bad” cholesterol from your blood vessels. Ask your health care team what your cholesterol numbers should be.
If you are over 40 years of age, you may need to take a statin drug for heart health.
S for Stop smoking
Not smoking is especially important for people with diabetes because both smoking and diabetes narrow blood vessels.
Blood vessel narrowing makes your heart work harder.
E-cigarettes aren’t a safe option either. If you quit smoking you will lower your risk for heart attack, stroke, nerve disease, kidney disease, diabetic eye disease, and amputation.
Your cholesterol and blood pressure levels may improve, your blood circulation will improve you may have an easier time being physically active. If you smoke or use other tobacco products, stop.
Ask for help so you don’t have to do it alone.
If you are over 40 years of age, you may need to take a statin drug for heart health.
S for Stop smoking
Not smoking is especially important for people with diabetes because both smoking and diabetes narrow blood vessels.
Blood vessel narrowing makes your heart work harder.
E-cigarettes aren’t a safe option either. If you quit smoking you will lower your risk for heart attack, stroke, nerve disease, kidney disease, diabetic eye disease, and amputation.
Your cholesterol and blood pressure levels may improve, your blood circulation will improve you may have an easier time being physically active. If you smoke or use other tobacco products, stop.
Ask for help so you don’t have to do it alone.
Keeping your A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels close to your goals and stopping smoking may help prevent the long-term harmful effects of diabetes.
These health problems include heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, and eye disease. You can keep track of your ABCs with a diabetes care record. Take it with you on your health care visits. Talk about your goals and how you are doing, and whether you need to make any changes in your diabetes care plan.
These health problems include heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, and eye disease. You can keep track of your ABCs with a diabetes care record. Take it with you on your health care visits. Talk about your goals and how you are doing, and whether you need to make any changes in your diabetes care plan.
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Colonel Who Murdered 5 Priest Sentenced
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Spain sentences 76-year-old colonel to 133 years for murdering five priests
A Spanish court on Friday sentenced a former Salvadoran colonel to 133 years in prison for murdering five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American nation’s civil war.
Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, 76, was found guilty of the killings which took place in November 1989 when the Jesuits were acting as a mediator to try to end the civil war between the government and FMLN guerrillas.
Spain’s top criminal court said he was responsible for eight murders — six Jesuits, one of whom was Salvadoran, their cook and her 16-year-old daughter — but could only sentence him on the basis of five as it was on those grounds that he was extradited from the United States.
The murders took place outside the priests’ residence on the campus of the Central American University (UCA) as El Salvador was gripped by deadly fighting between government forces and the FMLN which lasted more than 10 years.
Among the victims was Spanish priest Father Ignacio EllacurÃa, UCA’s rector and one of the country’s most important political analysts, the court said.
Three of the priests were shot dead as they lay on the ground, court documents showed. Montano, who served as El Salvador’s deputy minister for public security between 1989 to 1992, is the first to be tried over the bloodshed after Spain opened an investigation in 2009 on the principle of universal justice. El Salvador has refused to hand over other military officers to Spain.
Montano was extradited from the United States in 2017, where he had served nearly two years in jail for immigration fraud. Since arriving in Spain, he has been held in pre-trial detention.
Prosecutors said Morales gave the order for the killings, carried out in the early hours of November 16, 1989.
Montano had been due to be tried with Rene Yusshy Mendoza, who served as a lieutenant in the Atlacatl battalion that carried out the killings.
But Mendoza was acquitted in June after the defence argued successfully that by the time he was charged the alleged crimes were past the statute of limitations.
The trial opened in early June.
The civil war in El Salvador ended in 1992 with a peace accord after 12 years of fighting between the government and rebels in which more than 75,000 people died and 7,000 disappeared
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