Title: Women most affected by vascular complications of diabetes
(WorldNews Health)

Sophia Antipolis, 14 November 2019: Women are most affected by the vascular complications of diabetes - a situation likely to escalate in the coming decades, reports a paper published on World Diabetes Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 Cardiovascular disease occurs 15 years earlier in patients with diabetes and is their main cause of morbidity and mortality. In women, the links between diabetes and cardiovascular disease are particularly potent. Globally, there are more deaths due to diabetes in women than in men (2.1 versus 1.8 million annually) - this excess risk is mainly...