Diabetes and Heart Disease
Cardiologists are finding that type 2 diabetes patients with heart disease have better chances of treatment from medicine as opposed to invasive heart surgery. Compliance and consistency with heart medications is also key to preventing heart attacks and stroke in such patients. Generally Type 2 Diabetes patients have serious risk of developing such ailments, and are considered high-risk. Such high risk patients according to physicians should get regular heart scans for early detection and prevention methods.
USA Today said, "It's the first time any randomized clinical trial has shown a reduction in non-fatal heart attack rates in stable patients with diabetes and heart disease," says cardiologist Robert Frye, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and a study chairman. "The study reinforces that for people with diabetes and mild heart disease, medical therapy works, and works very well," Zonzsein says."
