Global study shows diabetes and heart disease can be a deadly combination

Posted by on June 11, 2016 8:56 pm
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New research has found that patients with type 2 diabetes admitted into the hospital for congestive heart failure face a one in four chance of dying within 18 months. Patients with type 2 diabetes have two to three times the heart disease risk of the general population, but the findings paint a grimmer picture of the outcome for diabetes patients with severe heart disease than was known.

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