New studies have shown that diabetes and obese are interlinked to heart diseases. Both mentioned earlier leads to the development of heart disease during their lifetime.
More than 3,400 adults in a long-running U.S. heart study, women who were obese and diabetic had a nearly 80 percent chance of developing heart disease at some point. For their male counterparts, that figure was nearly 90 percent.
Lifetime risk was based on the likelihood that a 50-year-old would develop heart disease in the next 30 years. Dr. Caroline S. Fox of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and her colleagues the lifetime heart disease risk of normal-weight women and men who did not have diabetes was 34 percent and 49 percent respectively. The risk for normal-weight women and men with diabetes was 55 percent and 77 percent respectively.
Obese women and men who do not have diabetes had a 47 percent and 67 percent chance of developing heart disease respectively, while the risk for those with diabetes was 79 percent and 87 percent.
The number of Americans with diabetes is expected to rise to 48.3 million by 2050, the researchers note, and heart disease due to diabetes appears to already be on the rise. If current trajectories do not change, this trend may worsen.
Source: Reuters Health
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