does diabetes cause heart attacks
March 31, 2008 -- Adults being treated for diabetes are just as likely to have a heart attack or stroke or die from cardiovascular causes as people who have had a prior heart attack, new research shows. They are also twice as likely as non-diabetics to die following a heart attack, the study revealed.he increased risk was observed at all ages with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes who were receiving insulin or other drugs to reduce levels of sugar in the blood , Schramm notes. When people with diabetes do have heart attacks, they are twice as likely to die as nondiabetics..