Reuters reports that people who have diabetes have the same chance of having a major heart-related event as those who have already had a heart attack. The researchers who conducted the study found that a person with diabetes is 2.3 times more likely to get a stroke, heart attack or other major heart related event than a man who has neither diabetes nor a prior heart attack. Men who had a heart attack previously, were 2.5 times more likely to get the same heart-related events. For women, the risks were 2.5 times for diabetics and 2.7 times for those with a previous heart attack. Additionally, when diabetics have a heart attack, they are twice as likely to die as non-diabetics, the researchers said.
The study encompassed 3.3 million Danes who were at least 30 years old. Overall, 2.2 percent of subjects had diabetes and 2.4 percent had a prior heart attack.
For me, that means I, at 28, have the same risk for a heart attack or stroke as my father-in-law who is 31 years older. My goal of living until 100 just got it’s first heart attack!
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Though the 20th annual Alert Day took place 11 days ago on March 25, it is still important for people to be made aware about the seriousness of the disease whenever possible. 21 million adults and children in the US (about 7% of the population) have the disease but only about 14.5 million of them know that they have it. The American Diabetes Association has a short and quick 
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