High cholesterol levels can lead to serious health problems, most off which involved the clogging of the arteries also referred to as atherosclerosis. When cholesterol accumulates in the arteries, a plaque is being built up, interfering with blood to distribute oxygen to the heart and brain resulting in heart disease or stroke.

This is why monitoring your blood cholesterol levels periodically and decreasing fat intake are so important to reduce the risk. This is truer with people who suffer from diabetes, who are naturally more susceptible to suffer serious consequences from heart attacks as a result of high blood cholesterol.

People with diabetes should pay extra attention to their blood cholesterol levels. A level of cholesterol, which is considered low with normal people, will still be considered relatively high and even dangerous for a diabetic patient, forcing the diabetic to put extra effort in lowering his cholesterol level to a degree that will also reduce the risk involved.

Diabetes is a disease in which, blood sugar levels are very high since, and the body cannot regulate and control blood sugar properly. Diabetes usually happens when there is a problem with the pancreas as it does not produce enough insulin or use it improperly to regulate blood sugar levels.

It has been studied that one of the major risks involved with diabetes and high cholesterol level, is that diabetics can lose their sight in case cholesterol is not properly reduced. This is truer with patients who suffer from hereditary diabetics. These patients face an even greater risk of losing their vision, especially if cholesterol levels are above 200mg/dl.

Bear in mind, that this doesn’t hold water with people who don’t have diabetes. Nevertheless, everyone with high cholesterol can potentially suffer from heart disease and diabetics can suffer from both heart attack and loss of vision, so the risk in doubled with diabetics.

So how can diabetics lose their vision? Normally and without having high cholesterol level, diabetics can go blind since blood sugar levels is too high and damages the retina. However, from a study conducted at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, It also appears that patients with diabetics 1 are more susceptible of developing macular edema, a condition that can seriously damage one’s vision and is twice as likely to develop in case the LDL cholesterol is high and HDL cholesterol is lower that what is recommended. (The desirable level is over 40 mg/dl).