Diabetes roughly doubles the risk of having a heart attack or stroke

Diabetes roughly doubles the risk of having a heart attack or stroke but it
triples the odds of dying of kidney disease and of dying from infection.
Pooled data from 97 studies enabled the researchers to point out that 40% of
820,000 people with raised blood sugar levels died from non vascular causes.
The findings are the first to be documented from comprehensive reports on
non-cardiovascular causes of death in people with diabetes.
Diabetes increases the risks of dying from cancers like ovarian, pancreatic,
colorectal, breast, bladder, and lung.
It also raises the risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), falls, nervous system disorders,
digestive disorder, suicide and liver disease, to name a few.
That people with diabetes live a shorter life is not something new. But
Spyros Mezitis, MD, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York
City said an increased association with cancer and non-cancerous disease
with diabetes is something to give attention to.
Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD, a professor in the departments of nutrition and
epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston said the result
emphasizes the importance of continued work on why diabetes increases cancer
risk.
Besides smoking, and lack of physical activity, related problems such as
diabetes are likely to be close to importance as smoking for cancer risk.
Giovannucci was the lead author of a consensus statement jointly published
by the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association in 2010

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