NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with "pre-diabetes" may show signs of impending heart trouble long before the same warning signs show up in men, a new study suggests.
As its name implies, pre-diabetes is a precursor to type 2 diabetes; it's recognized when a person's blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to diagnose diabetes.
In the new study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers found that women, but not men, showed certain markers of blood-vessel abnormalities an average of 6 years before developing pre-diabetes. ...more
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