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| Diabetics and Cardiovascular Diseases | Such complications can take years for becoming obvious. And when they do, they are frequently severe. Limited blood flow to the heart may provoke the chest pain called angina.
 A dangerous lack of blood can also lead to a heart attack, in which a part of the heart muscle dies. When blood flow to the brain is obstructed, a stroke can happen.
A warning sign of peripheral vascular disease, called intermittent claudication, involves pain in leg muscles during exercise. This pain occurs from obstructions in the arteries of the legs.
Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Impact
 Heart disease strikes diabetics, twice as often as people without diabetes.
In people with diabetes, cardiovascular complications appear at an earlier age and often result in early death.
People with diabetes are two to four times more likely to suffer strokes and once having had a stroke, are two to four times as likely to have a recurrence.
Deaths from heart disease in women with diabetes have enlarged 23 percent over the past 30 years in comparison to a 27 percent decrease in women without diabetes.
Deaths from heart disease in men with diabetes have decreased by only 13 percent compared to a 36 percent decrease in men without diabetes.
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