Heart Disease
Reports from A.C. Dale and co-researchers add new data to research in heart disease
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 7th, 2008
According to recent research from Trondheim, Norway, "Aims To study long-term mortality from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in subjects with and without diabetes and how the association between diabetes and fatal IHD is influenced by gender and established cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods and results In 1984-86, all inhabitants aged 20 years or older in Nord-Trondelag County, Norway were invited to the HUNT Study."
"A total of 74 914 participated in our study, 2100 of them with prevalent diabetes. During 18 years of follow-up, 19 967 persons died. Among people without diabetes or CVD at baseline, men had twice (HR 2.20, CI 2.00-2.41) the rate of fatal IHD compared...
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