Diabetes could age your heart by 15 years
The July issue of The Lancet (subscription) reports that those with type-2 diabetes (caused by either low production of insulin or its resistance) are more likely to suffer from heart-related incidences like stroke or attacks almost 15 years sooner than those without type-2 diabetes.
Dr. Gillian Booth, lead researcher at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada, and his team looked at the hospital and death records of over nine million Canadians: 379,000 of them had diabetes. Their aim was to see whether they could calculate how much quicker people with diabetes type 2 develop cardiovascular illnesses compared to healthy individuals.
His conclusion: “The rates are consistently higher.”
The researchers found that the life expectancy of an average person with diabetes type two and who was also of moderate or high risk for cardiovascular disease lived 18 years less than the average individual who did not have diabetes.
The number of people in the USA with type 2 diabetes has tripled over the last 30 years. The main reason is obesity, due to unhealthy eating habits and lack of physical activity. There are about 16m to 18m people with type 2 diabetes in the USA today.
- Via Medical News Today
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