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Myocardial Infarction
Heart attack risk especially high for women with diabetes
December 23rd, 2004
Having diabetes raises a woman's risk of having a heart attack to nearly 10 times that of other women, according to a study in the December 2004 issue of Diabetes Care. The study also describes why women with diabetes are at much higher risk than men with diabetes when it comes to having cardiac events. Heart disease is the leading killer of people with diabetes, regardless of gender. But the risks are disproportionately higher for women. Men who have diabetes are three times more likely to have a heart attack than those who don't, the study found. But women are 9.5 times more likely to have a heart attack if they have...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-23)
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