MONDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) — When a man develops
type 2 diabetes could determine his risk of a heart attack, a new study
finds.
In fact, men who have had type 2 diabetes for a decade or more face the
same risk as those who have already had a prior heart attack, the
researchers found.
The findings, appearing this week in the March 14 issue of Archives
of Internal Medicine, may help to stratify patients based on risk
level, to better determine who needs what type of care and when.
“You don’t want to give all these big, powerful, expensive medicines to
every single person. Maybe we can tease out the group that would benefit
more,” said Dr. Robert Scott III, an associate professor of internal
medicine at Texas AM Health Science Center College of Medicine and
senior staff cardiologist at Scott White in Temple, Texas. He was
not involved in the new study.
Prior research had indicated that the risk of heart disease in people
with type 2 diabetes was the same as in people who had had a previous
heart attack. But this research indicates that the risk really does have
more to do with timing.
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