“Being diagnosed with diabetes is serious business. While there has been a lot of progress in treating diabetes, diabetics also need to face their accompanying risk for heart disease.

Adults who have been diagnosed with diabetes have more than twice the risk for heart disease than other, symptom-free individuals of the same age. Diabetics tend to have a greater incidence for coronary artery disease and strokes at a younger age than their healthier counterparts. While premenopausal women enjoy a moderate level of protection from heart disease due to high levels of estrogen, diabetes effectively “cancels out” any protection a woman might otherwise have during her childbearing years.”

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