Diabetes Brings Earlier Heart Disease, Death
July 1, 2006 by Dr. Marcus Ettinger
Filed under Health Conditions, In The News
FRIDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) — People with type 2 diabetes can expect to suffer from fatal and non-fatal heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events about 15 years earlier than non-diabetics, a new study shows.
“The rates are consistently higher,” said lead researcher Dr. Gillian Booth, an adjunct scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, Canada.
Her team published its findings in the July 1 issue of The Lancet.
