Elderly Prone to Diabetes and Stroke

Written By rajablos on Kamis, 17 Maret 2011 | 04.02

It is not uncommon, when people age or older (elderly) usually store intractable diseases. You see, as we get older, their immune system weakened.

According to Djoko Maryono, Specialist Doctors internists and cardiologists Pertamina Hospital (RSPP), Jakarta, diseases which usually descend elderly are diabetes, stroke and coronary heart disease.

Diabetes mellitus or diabetes to be one disease that is often undermined. There are four types of diabetes are. Type 1 diabetes which occurs due to genetic problems. Type 2 due to unhealthy lifestyles. Third, Gestational diabetes mellitus type found in pregnant women. Finally, the type of diabetes is no known cause.

If left unchecked, diabetes will be widened to other diseases. For example, disturbances in the area of ​​the eye that can cause blindness or nerve disorders that can result in stroke.

Djoko recommend that diabetics take vitamin C. "Consumption of 500 milligrams (mg) to 1,000 mg per day," he said. Vitamin C is able to bind to vitamin and mineral intake into the body so that it can be better absorbed by the body.

If a person suffers from diabetes, many vitamins such as B12, magnesium, and zinc are not absorbed properly by the body. In fact, these vitamins support the immune system. "That's why diabetics are susceptible to infection," said Djoko.

Nutrition experts from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) Sri Murni recommend people with diabetes eat a diet with low sugar levels. Also preferably, the elderly eat three meals a day, and healthy snacking between meal hours.

In addition to diabetes, cardiovascular disorders or blood vessels also become customers of the elderly. Examples of cardiovascular disease is stroke and coronary heart disease. Disturbances in blood vessels does not occur immediately. Usually, the patient has an unhealthy lifestyle. Alcohol drinkers, the owners of high cholesterol and being overweight or obese are vulnerable to this attack. Stroke occurs due to narrowing of blood vessels of the brain that disrupts the nervous sufferer.

Djoko suggested that stroke patients taking vitamin B, which serves to keep the blood vessels in order to remain flexible and not narrow. Vitamin B which contains folate can be found in green beans, red rice and black rice.

Similarly, patients with coronary heart disease. Patients with coronary heart ring has been installed to maintain the blood vessel remains open there is any possibility of blood vessels can be narrowed again.

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