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(Circulation. 2001;104:e9044.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.

Cardiovascular News

Ruth SoRelle, MPH

Circulation Newswriter

Cardiovascular Disease Rates in Women With Diabetes

Seventy-two percent of US women with diabetes have a major form of cardiovascular disease, according to a report by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality that appeared in the November 2, 2001, issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (2001;50: 948–954; available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/ mmwrhtml/mm5043a2.htm).

The most common cardiovascular disease was hypertension, which affected 64% of the women with diabetes who were surveyed, followed by other heart disease conditions (19%), coronary heart disease (12%), heart attack (11%), angina (10%), and stroke (8%). Prevalence increased with age, according to the researchers, who found that only 40.5% of women with diabetes who were between the ages of 18 and 44 had a cardiovascular disease, whereas 85.1% of those aged 75 years had cardiovascular disease. Age-adjusted prevalence of major cardiovascular disease among women with diabetes was twice that of women without diabetes. (The numbers of women with and without diabetes were obtained from the 1997-1999 National Health Interview Survey [NHIS].)

The age-adjusted prevalence of major cardiovascular disease was twice as high in women with diabetes as it was in women without the disease. The prevalence of cardiovascular disease in women with diabetes was higher in non-Hispanic blacks than it was in non-Hispanic whites or in Hispanics.

Hospital discharge rates for major cardiovascular disease increased with age in women with diabetes, from 22.9 per 1000 in women aged 18 to 44 years to 332.7 per 1000 in women aged . . . [Full Text of this Article]