Health Tip: Diabetes Affects Women Differently

By on November 21, 2017

Diabetes affects about the same number of women and men, but it affects them differently.

According to the Office on Women’s Health, women with diabetes have:

  • A higher risk of developing heart disease, the most common complication of diabetes.
  • Lower survival rate and a poorer quality of life after heart attack.
  • An increased risk of blindness.
  • A higher risk of depression.

Source: HealthDay

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