Diabetes And Heart Disease Together Lead To Early Death, Study

Diabetes and heart disease together can lower your life expectancy, as the patient would be vulnerable to the risk of early death, according to indianexpress 

The solutions then are simple. If you want to live longer, then reduce your diabetes and heart disease, the study said.

In a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on July 7, a survey of more than 135,000 deaths that occurred after a follow-up of almost 1.2 million participants, showed researchers from the University of Cambridge that an individual in his/her 60s, who has both the illnesses, has an average reduction in life expectancy of about 15 years."

The analysis was based on data from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (ERFC). About 700,000 participants were recruited from 1960 to 2007; while 500,000 were recruited from 2006 to 2010, according to techtimes.

Men suffering from three conditions - diabetes, stroke and heart attack (cardiometabolic diseases) - would see a dip in their life expectancy of 14 years. Women at the same age showed a reduction in their life expectancy of 13 years and 16 years.

Surprisingly, 40-year-old men with all the three "cardiometabolic conditions" would have a reduced life expectancy of 23 years. For women with the same conditions, the reduction works out to 20 years.

"Our results highlight the importance of preventing heart disease and stroke among patients with diabetes, and likewise averting diabetes amongst heart disease patients," said professor John Danesh, study co-author.