You eat right. You maintain control of your diabetes. You feel great. You're young at heart. Steady as she goes, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Researchers state that the risk of heart attack is the same in both populations.
You read that correctly. If you have type 2 diabetes and you've never had a problem with your heart, you have the same risk as someone without diabetes who has already had a heart attack. The study, called the Coronary Heart Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Study, was conducted by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the University of Kuopio in Finland, and Turku University, also in Finland. They compared the rate of heart attack of 1,059 people with type 2 with that 1,373 people who don't have diabetes. The study took place in Finland, and participants were 45 to 64 years old.