Furthermore, CVD increased the rate of allcause
death by nearly three times, while causing
nearly five times as much cardiovascular death
in individuals with diabetes (Paneni, 2014).
Diabetes and CVD are a very serious progressive
combination and difficult for practitioners to
treat, so prevention is obviously preferential.
These revised guidelines (Rydén et al, 2013)
aim for risk-factor reduction and interventions
to try to stem the epidemic of diabetes and
consequently CVD. They include targeting
those with pre-diabetes with cost-effective
strategies and offering health-promoting
messages regarding behaviour modification,
engagement and knowledge awareness during
consultations, reflecting the primary healthpromoting
role of nurses. Farrell and Keeping-
Burke (2014), in their work in primary care,
suggested that nurses are ideally placed to offer
effective health-promoting strategies regarding
CVD and diabetes