Heart Disease and Diabetes: Know the Link between them
Why is the knowledge about heart disease and diabetes so important? You can develop heart disease even at a younger age if you have diabetes according to medical experts. Besides, heart disease is the number 1 cause of death in the world among type 2 diabetics. According to NHS England, diabetes increases heart attack risk by 48%. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), diabetes represents one of the seven major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). But, the good news is that type 2 diabetes is controllable compared to the other risk factors. What, then, is heart disease? Heart disease is a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels. There are two prominent types of this disease. One of them is coronary heart disease, which affects the blood vessels ...