Combined with excess weight or obesity, diabetes is a tangible risk factor for cardiovascular complications. And the opposite is also true: hypertension can be a precursor of diabetes. What’s more, this association between diabetes and cardiovascular health is not found only in people with overt diabetes, but also in those in the so-called prediabetic phase, in which a reduced tolerance to sugars prevails.

Hypoglycaemic crises, and more rarely hyperglycaemic ones, can affect diabetic people’s everyday life. But what are the causes that trigger them? Let’s dive into the human body to understand why keeping blood sugar under control is important, and how these crises develop.

A little water and sugar can quickly fix the situation, but when low blood pressure is a constant problem, this simple temporary discomfort turns into a real pathology. It’s not just a matter of labels: there can be specific causes, symptoms and factors that make some people more vulnerable to blood pressure drops. But what is hypotension, or low blood pressure, exactly? Let’s explore the issue together.

We do it more than 15 times per minute, once every four seconds. Breathing is a primordial act of life and we have a specialized system just to input air, and above all oxygen, into our body. Let’s find out how this sophisticated “respiratory apparatus” works.

Over half of the world’s population suffers from muscle or joint pain. Cervical and lumbar back pain top the list, but any one of the 400 joints in our body can easily be affected. Let’s find out the differences between muscle and joint pain.

Receiving a diabetes diagnosis is a delicate moment, in which it is natural to have many questions. Medical psychology has identified a series of phases people go through, corresponding to periods of rejection, rebellion, negotiation, depression and active acceptance. It is not a one-way street: the progress from one phase to the next is not automatic and even during active acceptance you cannot rule out relapses into the previous stages.

Snoring at night can be a small nightmare for you, your partner or anyone trying to get some sleep around you, between nights on the sofa, earplugs, annoyance and family conflicts. Snoring can be a real source of disturbance, and can have a variety of causes – including two diseases that have recently been investigated by medical research: chronic snoring and sleep apnoea syndrome. Let’s find out more together.

A stuffy nose is definitely the first symptom of a cold. Breathing difficulties and always needing a handkerchief at hand are often signs of the most classic winter illness. Yet this is not always the case: our nose can feel stuffy and become congested even in the absence of a cold. Let’s find out together what the cause could be.

Did you know aerosol therapy just got much easier, thanks to wearable devices? Let’s find out more about this new approach to tackling airway illnesses.