Diabetes Adds 15 Years to Heart Attack Risk Calculation - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
TORONTO, June 29 — Diabetes is the clinical equivalent of aging 15 years, thrusting men and women with the disease into a high-risk category for cardiovascular disease while still in middle-age.
A 48-year-old diabetic man has a 20% risk of suffering an acute myocardial infarction by age 58, wrote Gillian L. Booth, M.D., and colleagues, of the University of Toronto in the July 1 issue of The Lancet.
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