Anew report entitled Diabetes Heartache, the hard reality of cardiovascular care for people with diabetes, reveals that up to 2.4 million people with diabetes are at risk of dying of cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as heart disease or stroke, if nothing is done to improve awareness, prevention and treatment.
For the first time Diabetes UK has assessed how well all the risk factors for CVD are currently managed in people with diabetes in the UK, and it has found that many people are failing to reach the recommended treatment targets for key risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol despite the fact that official guidelines show that treatment is proven to significantly reduce heart attacks and strokes.
As diabetes rates continue to soar, the Diabetes UK report shows that lives are still being put at risk needlessly and calls for better awareness of the link between diabetes and increased cardiovascular risk.
