Study Finds Just How Fast Diabetes Cuts Lives
Study finds just how fast diabetes cuts lives Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests. The large international effort to measure diabetes’ toll found it also raises the risk of dying prematurely from a host of other ailments, even breast cancer and pneumonia. “It’s quite a wide sweep of conditions,” said Dr. John Danesh of Cambridge University in Britain, who led the team of researchers. While most people think of heart problems, diabetes surprisingly “appears to be associated with aRead More →