People with diabetes living in rich areas have fewer cardiac events but more risk of hospitalization and even death, as a study carried out by Canadian researchers and which has been published in the 'Canadian Medical Association Journal has revealed'.
"This study provides new knowledge about cardiovascular health patterns and related people with diabetes living in more favored areas," researchers have argued.
The rates of several heart events, such as heart failure and myocardial infarction, among the diabetic people who lived in the wealthiest areas of Ontario decreased up to 60 percent during the study period, but the rates were even higher than inPeople who do not belong to these areas.
The use of revascularization procedures increased from 2 to 3 times, as well as and the use of medicines such as statins to protect against heart events also increased substantially, suggesting that these may have contributed to the decrease in heart events rates.
As the study focused on diabetes, researchers did not analyze the effect of other diseases on differences in the results between the richest and the most disadvantaged areas.