The researchers of the University of Queensland, Australia, have come to the conclusion that women with diabetes are three times more apt to heart diseases than those without diabetes. Diabetic men are twice more likely to have heart disease, than the representatives of the stronger sex, who do not suffer from this disease.

In the new study, the researchers pulled data going back to 1966 up to 2011, using 64 studies that included about 850,000 patients. The study showed that diabetic women had a 46 percent higher chance of dying from coronary heart disease than men. Across all of those cases, diabetic women were 44 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease than men. According to the experts, such difference may be caused not only by the peculiarities of the women organism, but this may be related to the fact that men are treated more effectively. Yet even when treatment is similar between the sexes, diabetic women are less likely to hit treatment targets. This has led many doctors to conclude that metabolic health deteriorates further for women who become diabetic than men. In other words, women are less healthy when they begin treatment. Yet the reason why seems more elusive and the exact cause is still a mystery.

The authors emphasize that regardless of gender, diabetics should control the sugar level, blood pressure and cholesterol level in the blood, as well as try to have a healthy weight. All these measures will help to reduce the risk of ischemic and other coronary heart diseases.