Diabetes Increases Risk of Heart Failure in Women

Diabetic women are at greater risk of heart failure than men with the same condition, a new paper suggests.

Type 1 diabetes is associated with a 47% excess risk of heart failure in women compared to men, according to the paper, published in the journal Diabetologia on Thursday.

The paper also found that type 2 diabetes has a 9% excess risk of heart failure for women than men.

It also shed light on the importance of preventing the development of type 2, since it can be a risk factor for heart failure and other health problems.

"The bottom line really comes down to that people should have a healthy lifestyle, so eat healthfully and exercise a lot, it's important to maintain a healthy weight," said Sanne Peters, a research fellow at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was an author of the paper.

The new paper reviewed 14 previously published that focused on the link between diabetes and heart failure risk. Those studies were published between January 1966 and November 2018.

After reviewing and analyzing the data in those studies, which included 12 million people and 253,260 cases of heart failure, the researchers noticed that both type 1 and type 2 diabetes were stronger risk factors for heart failure in women than in men.

It also noted that women have a low absolute risk for heart failure compared to men.

The reason for the difference in risk between type 1 and type 2 remains unclear, overall, more research is needed to explain these differences.