Diabetes

• A major risk factor for men and women

• Exacerbates other risk factors

• May impair estrogen receptors

• Risk is even greater in women

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Although DM is an important risk factor in both men and women it is an even stronger factor in women.

Mortality rates in women with CAD are higher that those in men

DM exacerbates other risk factors