If you are heart patient or have ever incurred heart attack, so may be another health threat in the form of diabetes is not far away. Credit to bring out this assumption goes to the collaborative efforts made by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Italy.
During the course of study that followed around 8,291 Italian patients, having sustained a heart attack within the previous three months, experts came out with such findings. As per the conclusion, patients with heart attack were 4.5 times more likely to develop diabetes. And shockingly, such patients were 15 times more likely to develop a pre-diabetes condition known as Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG). Factors like older age, use of beta-blockers, diuretic use, higher blood pressure, inactive lifestyle were also associated with new onset-diabetes or IFG.
With this revelation, a new debate has been kicked off, stressing the need of intensive study over this correlation.
