Women with diabetes are especially prone to developing heart disease according to : The Washington Post

Over time, these spikes can damage nerves and blood vessels, putting diabetics at elevated risk of heart disease and stroke. Women typically don't develop heart disease — or high blood pressure, one of its major risk factors — until after menopause. "Women with diabetes need to understand that the risk of getting heart disease is significant, and they need to be aware of it," she says. Diabetes "dramatically increases the risk" of heart disease at any age — overall, people with diabetes are twice as likely to have heart disease or a stroke as are other people — and its impact "tends to be greater in women than in men," she says. Women with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer a second heart attack and four times as likely to suffer heart failure as are women who do not have the disease, according to the American Diabetes Association.




In an effort to educate, screen and treat the women of the Upstate for heart disease, GHS has launched a Women's Heart Center. An astounding 90 percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease and may not even know it. If an immediate relative has had a heart attack, stroke or has known heart disease, then there's a likelihood you may as well – even if you exercise and eat right. Meanwhile, heart disease and stroke cause 1 in 3 deaths among women each year – more than all cancers combined. The GHS Women's Heart Center is exclusively dedicated to the screening, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women.

Like smoking tobacco, vaping may increase risk of heart disease

All participants had no known health problems, were taking no prescription medications and did not smoke tobacco cigarettes. Twenty-three had used e-cigarettes — vaped — daily for at least a year and 19 had never vaped. The questionPeople sometimes opt for electronic cigarettes in hopes of escaping the proven health hazards of tobacco, which include an increased risk for heart disease. This studyThe study involved 42 adults with an average age of 28. Some people see e-cigarettes as a way to rein in the use of tobacco cigarettes.



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