Obesity and diabetes

ABSTRACT

Diabetics have, on the average, higher blood pressures than the general population. This is not due to any specific effect of the diabetes but is related to the obesity to which they are subject. The reduction of obesity by diet in such patients not only relieves them of the harmful effects which obesity always causes but also improves carbohydrate tolerance and reduces hypertension. This provides yet another reason why obesity should be corrected in diabetics wherever possible. (AU)