{"id":151885,"date":"2020-11-19T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/?p=151885"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:25:42","slug":"heart-attack-warning-type-2-diabetes-is-a-major-risk-factor-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/heart-attack-warning-type-2-diabetes-is-a-major-risk-factor-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart attack warning: Type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor – here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heart attacks<\/a>\u00a0happen when an artery supplying your heart with blood and oxygen becomes blocked. The event is often sudden and dramatic, with symptoms including chest pain that spreads to other areas of the body. The symptoms must be responded to immediately, lest you inflict permanent damage on the heart muscle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The event itself may unfold rapidly, but the risk factors associated with having a heart attack can develop over many years.<\/p>\n

Understanding the risk factors can therefore mitigate your risk of having a heart attack long before you are confronted with one.<\/p>\n

Chronic conditions can raise your risk of the deadly event and one of the gravest appears to be type 2\u00a0diabetes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to new\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the official journal of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology, more than 90 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are at high risk of fatal heart disease or stroke within 10 years.<\/p>\n

Type 2 diabetes is a long-term condition characterised by inadequate insulin supply and unstable blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most striking result of our study was that the vast majority of patients (93 percent) had a high or very high risk of fatal events within a decade, study author Dr. Manel Mata-Cases, a general practitioner for the Catalan Institute of Health in Sant Adria de Besos, Spain.<\/p>\n

He continued: “Half of patients in the very high-risk group had no history of heart disease, meaning they would not be receiving medications to prevent heart attacks and strokes.”<\/p>\n

To gather their findings, researchers sifted through the Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP) database, which is used by all primary health providers in Catalonia, Spain.<\/p>\n

It includes almost 80 percent of the total population there.<\/p>\n

According to researchers, the average age of people studied was 70, and a little less than half were female.<\/p>\n

The subjects had the following preexisting conditions:<\/p>\n