• Exercise, Hypertension and Diabetes

Exercise can also lower your blood pressure. This is important because high blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of several contributing factors leading to coronary artery disease. Other, contributing factors are cigarette smoking, obesity, high blood cholesterol level, stress, and diabetes. Any one of these factors alone increases a person's chances of coronary artery disease, but any combination of two or more greatly increases the chances. Therefore, because you already have diabetes, you will want to do everything possible to avoid the other contributing factors for coronary artery disease.