Heart patients with diabetes more likely to suffer complications and death: Study – The Straits Times

SINGAPORE – People with chronic heart disease who also have diabetes are at higher risk of death and have poorer outcomes than heart patients who do not also have diabetes, according to an international study that tracked heart patients on a registry over five years.
It found that patients who had both diabetes and chronic heart disease were almost 40 per cent more likely to die than those without diabetes.
The diabetic patients’ risk of a heart attack, stroke or death was also higher by about 30…

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