Sixty Percent of Cardiovascular Patients are Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic

Sixty Percent of Cardiovascular Patients are Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic: The impact of growing obesity levels is pushing Type 2 diabetes into an epidemic. This is a serious problem for healthcare providers due to the cost of treatment, but also for cardiologists who now see diabetes prevention as one of their main health challenges. Around 60% of cardiovascular patients nowadays are pre-diabetic or diabetic, a significant increase from 20 years ago. European Society of Cardiology (ESC)