Women With High Or Increasing Blood Pressure Are Up To Three Times More Likely To Develop Diabetes

One of the largest studies to investigate the relationship between blood pressure and type 2 diabetes has found that women who have high blood pressure levels are three times more likely to develop diabetes than women with low blood pressure levels. This effect was independent of body mass index and other conditions that are known to predispose people to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Diabetes on October 11th, 2007