Diabetes Harvard Citation Studies

Diabetes
(Harvard Citation)
Studies conducted over decades have concluded that there is a significant link between diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. For instance, the most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes, which involves both the impairment in insulin resistance and the defective secretion of insulin by the pancreas. The development of diabetes often comes with a number of cardiovascular complications including “coronary heart disease (CDC), stroke, peripheral arterial disease, nephropathy, retinopathy, and possibly neuropathy and cardiomyopathy.” (Grundy 1999)
Specifically both diabetes type 1 and type 2 are considered to be risk factors for atherosclerotic coronary heart disease. “Moreover, myocardial ischemeal due to coronary atherosclerosis commonly occurs without symptoms in patients with diabetes.” (Grundy 1999) In other words, patients with diabetes are more likely to be stricken with congestive heart failure. But it is not only the risk of heart failure that diabetes sufferers are at risk from, another risk of heart disease is stroke. Studies have concluded that “mortality from stroke is increased almost 3-fold when patients with diabetes are matched to those without diabetes.” (Grundy 1999) And those with diabetes are more likely to suffer irreversible brain damage with carotid emboli than those without diabetes.
Overall, there has been established a definitive link between diabetes and heart disease. Not only does diabetes increase the likelihood of a person’s arteries becoming clogged as well as the odds of suffering a heart attack, but it also increased the chance of suffering a stroke as well as the severity of damage.
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