Diabetes Juvenil

You've probably been told that because you have been diagnosed with diabetes your risk for a heart attack is the same as that of a person who has already had one.

This turns out to be pure bullpucky.

A study published in Diabetes Care this month followed for ten years 4,410 patients aged 30–74 years: 2,260 with type 2 diabetes without coronary heart disease recruited in 53 primary health care centers and 2,150 people who had already had a heart attack but did not have diabetes.

Here's what they found: The adjusted hazard ratios (HRs)