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Each of us needs to be aware of our increased risk for heart disease. As women, we are at an increased risk for heart disease and as women with diabetes, our risk is even higher.I am not a health care professional, but I am an avid volunteer for the American Heart Association, and the information I am sharing can very save your life. Also, a large part of my personal life story is attributed to a no nonsense cardiologist. His intervention and treatment plan not only helped me to better control my diabetes, it quite literally saved my life.In America today heart disease is the number one killer of women. More women loose their lives to heart disease than to all forms of cancers combined. Statistically one in three women have cardiovascular disease and one in three women will die from the same. That means that one woman is lost to heart disease roughly every sixty seconds. Even more than all of the mind numbing statistics, please know this one important fact: heart disease is largely preventable.There are many things that none of us can control, our sex, our genes, our ethnicity…for all of the things we can not control there are at least as many things we can affect. We can start by being informed and engaged about our health, knowing our numbers – A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol – ensuring we get daily physical activity, and participating as the center of our health care team. We must understand and accept that diabetes and heart disease are undeniably linked. So sisters, Love your Heart!
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