Diabetics At Same Risk Of Cardiovascular Death As Heart Attack Survivors

Published on: April 1st, 2008
Article by: Anthony Wilson

Diabetes sufferers are just as likely to have a heart attack or stroke as those who have already survived a heart attack according to a recent Danish study published in the journal Circulation.

The study of 3.3 million residents of Denmark over the age of thirty years was conducted between 1997 and 2002. 71,801 people had been diagnosed with either type-1 or type-2 diabetes. and 79,575 had suffered a prior heart attack.

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Vitamin D Deficiency Leads To Type-1 Diabetes Later In Life

Published on: March 21st, 2008
Article by: Anthony Wilson

Infants who do not receive enough Vitamin D are more likely to develop type-1 diabetes later in life according to researchers who analyzed the findings of five previous studies.

The study, which appears in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, found that across the five studies, vitamin D supplementation resulted in on average a 30 percent reduction in the probability of developing type-1 diabetes later in life.

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