Women and men face different heart attack risks with diabetes

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261023/Women-and-men-face-different-heart-attack-risks-with-diabetes.aspx A study spanning four decades reveals how cholesterol abnormalities and high blood pressure help explain differences in diabetes-related heart attack risk between women and men, with warning signs emerging years before diabetes is diagnosed. A study published in European Heart Journal Open reported that the relative increase in myocardial infarction, or heart attack, risk associated with diabetes was similar in women and men after adjustment for conventional cardiovascular risk factors. The initially observed sex difference narrowed after adjustment for these factors, whose combined contribution was greater in women than in men.