50-Year-Old with Diabetes Dies 6 Years Sooner, Study Says
Charleston Gazette › March 04, 2011
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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 the disease also raises the risk of dying prematurely from a host of other ailments, even breast cancer and pneumonia.See the full content of this document
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50-Year-Old with Diabetes Dies 6 Years Sooner, Study Says
"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 associate...
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