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Diabetes is a warning sign for heart disease
Most people do not believe that diabetes is a warning sign for heart disease. But it is. At least two of every three people with diabetes die from cardiovascular disease.
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) [National Programme for Diabetes Education (Registrar may)], an initiative of the National Institutes of Health [National Institutes of Health (NIH)] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], urging people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels to prevent or delay heart disease.
Type 2 diabetes, previously called adult-onset diabetes, accounts for 90 to 95 percent of the 16 million Americans with diabetes. This number has increased six times in the past 40 years, partly as a result of increasing age, obesity, physical inactivity and hereditary factors. Read the rest of this entry »