Risk of heart failure tends to increase with age naturally, but one study found that elderly people with diabetes are at particularly high risk of experiencing heart failure and death. Published in the Journal of the American Journal of Medicine, the study was conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers.
More than 600 adult subjects, with an average age of 77, were monitored by researchers over the course of two decades.
At the conclusion of the study period, those subjects with diabetes were 10% more likely to have suffered death from heart failure than their peers.
The study's authors recommended aggressive evaluation and treatment of elderly diabetes.
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