Type 2 Diabetes and Women

(Source: Web MD News, 11 May 2011)
Type 2 diabetes makes heart disease -- the top killer of U.S. women -- more likely. Women with diabetes are as likely to have a heart attack as someone who has already had a heart attack. Compared to men, women with diabetes are more likely to have a heart attack and to die from it. And they tend to have a poorer quality of life than men.

“Nobody knows for sure why these heart risks are different for women than men - whether it’s hormones or socioeconomic factors or some combination of those two,” says ob-gyn and diabetes educator Cassandra Henderson, MD, of New York’s Montefiore Medical Center. Read more