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Diet & Nutrition
High fat diet is deadly for diabetic hearts
March 6th, 2006
The high-fat "diet" that diabetic heart muscle consumes helps make cardiovascular disease the most common killer of diabetic patients, according to a study done at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. The study was published in the February 7, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Sixty-five percent of people with diabetes die from heart attack or stroke. When the researchers investigated fuel consumption in heart muscle, they found that heart muscle of type 1 diabetic patients relies heavily on fat and very little on sugar for its energy needs. In contrast, heart muscle in non-diabetics...
Source: Obesity & Diabetes Week (2006-03-06)
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