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A new research shows that person whom is
diagnosed with diabetes means his or her expected life span are
eight years short of non-diabetic patients. Apart from this, study
also
found diabetics are more likely to develop heart disease sooner.
Having diabetes at
age 50 years and above represent a significant risk of developing
cardiovascular disease and mortality while also losing life
expectancy and life expectancy free from cardiovascular disease,
said lead author Dr. Oscar H. Franco, of the University Medical
Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Unilever Corporate Research, Sharnbrook, England.
About 95 percent of diabetic
patients suffer from obesity linked type 2 form of the blood sugar
illness, that means that prevention of diabetes is a fundamental
task facing today's society aiming to achieve populations living
linger and healthier.
Dr. Franco team
published its findings in the June issue of the Archives of Internal
Medicine. Franco's group collected data on more than 5,200 American
men and women who participated in the ongoing Framingham Heart
Study. These people were followed until they developed heart disease
or died. In addition, the researchers noted whether they had
diabetes.
Study also shows
diabetic women are more than twice likely to developed heart disease
than non-diabetic women, also diabetic women with heart disease are
twice likely to die compared with non-diabetic women. Men with
diabetes also had twice the risk of developing heart disease and
faced a 1.7 times higher risk of dying after developing heart
trouble.
Diabetic men who are
50 and older lived an average of 7.5 years less than men without
diabetes, while diabetic women lived an average of 8.2 years less.
In addition, life expectancy without heart disease still fell by 7.8
years in men and 8.4 years in women with diabetes compared with
non-diabetics.
An expert quoted the
study reflects the dangers posed by diabetes and the need for more
efforts to prevent and control the disease. It's sobering to think
about the number of years of life lost, we ought to be able to
reduce the cardiovascular risk because we can mange diabetes better
today but we are not, said Dr. Larry Deeb, president for medicine
and science at the American Diabetes Association. Dr Deeb believes
the new findings highlight the tragic results of not controlling the
illness. The important of this findings is to remind people who have
diabetes to control their diabetes.
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