Heart Disease: The Diabetes Link

Obesity cuts to the heart with a double-edged sword.

By Robert W Lash MD
May 2, 2007 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:49 AM

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As an endocrinologist, I see an ever-growing number ofpatients with diabetes and heart disease. Many of my patients with prediabetesor diabetes do not realize the negative effect that disease has on theirhearts. There is now good evidence that heart disease actually begins just asglucose levels start to rise. Thus earlytreatment of even prediabetes makes a lot of sense.

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