Diabetes and Your Heart
Sunday July 2, 2006
A study being reported in The Lancet shows that diabetics are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease about 15 years earlier than people without diabetes (all other risk factors being the same)
What this means for middle-aged diabetics is that they need to be monitored for problems much earlier than their counterparts and agressive risk reduction measures by diet, exercise and medications seem to be in order.
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