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Cardiovascular Disease
Women with diabetes at higher risk for CVD, but they receive inadequate care
May 31st, 2004
Women with diabetes are at greater risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) than men with diabetes and persons without diabetes, yet prevention and treatment of CVD in women with diabetes is inadequate, according to an international group of researchers. The risk of heart attack is 150% greater in women with diabetes than in women without diabetes, but only 50% greater in men with diabetes versus men without the disease. Women with diabetes are also more likely to have hypertension than are men with the disease. Most women with diabetes will develop CVD years earlier than women without diabetes. Between the ages of 65 and 79 years, women with diabetes show a two-fold...
Source: Obesity & Diabetes Week (2004-05-31)
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