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People With Diabetes Are More Vulnerable to Heart Disease. How to Reduce the Risk
If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, know that you’ve got plenty of company. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) reports that in 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, 37.3 million adults in the U.S.—about 11.3% of the population—had the chronic condition, and that number continues to grow. Type 1 diabetes develops when the body isn’t able to produce insulin, and Type 2 occurs when the body doesn’t use insulin correctly. Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes, and when it’s uncontrolled, a person’s blood sugar can jump to dangerous levels that requ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elaine K. Howley Tags: Uncategorized Disease freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Highlights From the Circulation Family of Journals.
Authors: Abstract This month's highlights from the subspecialty journals cover atrial fibrillation, microvascular dysfunction, progression of atherosclerosis, a stroke quality initiative, and a subanalysis of DAPAHF (Study to Evaluate the Effect of Dapagliflozin on the Incidence of Worsening Heart Failure or Cardiovascular Death in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure). Applying an artificial intelligence algorithm to sinus rhythm ECGs independently predicts atrial fibrillation in a study from Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. In Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, the association of alcohol ...
Source: Circulation - January 26, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Circulation Source Type: research