Type 2 Diabetes Can Short Your Life by Increasing Heart Risk
If you are suffering from type 2 diabetes, you can face stroke, heart attack, or cardiovascular disease 15 years earlier than a person who is diabetes-free.
“Diabetes confers the same risk of cardiovascular disease as aging 15 years,” said Gillian Booth of the Institute of Clinical Evaluation Sciences in Toronto, told Reuters in an interview.
You have to pay to access the study from scientists from the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada, but both Reuters and Medical News Today ran a story about this disastrous news.
