Answer To Your Fitness Questions" />Diabetics Twice As Likely To Suffer From Stroke, Heart Attack, and Death From Heart Disease
April 1, 2008
One physician suggests all diabetics need to talk to their doctors about starting treatments to control cholesterol levels and blood-pressure levels.
Lead author Dr. Tina Ken Schramm says, “we’ve talked about the lower, the better for cholesterol and blood pressure to reduce the risk of heart attack. Now I think we should be saying the sooner, the better for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in diabetics.”
This study researched people aged 30 and older living in Denmark in 1997. The study found 71,801 people with diabetes and 79,575 who had a previous heart attack, then identified deaths and the cause over a five year period.
“The increased risk was observed in people at all ages with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes who were receiving insulin or other drugs to reduce levels of sugar in the blood,” Schramm said. “When people with diabetes do have heart attacks, they are twice as likely to die as non-diabetics.”
The risk of dying from heart disease was found to be 2.5 times higher for females who had diabetes compared to 2.62 times higher for women with a prior heart attack. For men, risk of dying from heart disease was 2.42 times higher in males that had diabetes compared to2.44 for those with prior cardiovascular disease issues.
The study didn’t research patients on “diet-only” treatments for diabetes. They also couldn’t find the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients or adjust for common risk factors such as high blood preassure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, physical activity, and blood glucose levels.
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