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Because of advances in medical care, a heart attack is now more survivable than ever before. <\/p>\nBecause of advances in medical care, a heart attack is now more survivable than ever before. <\/p>\n
But if you experience a heart attack while also fighting type 2 diabetes, your chance of surviving the attack is much smaller, up to years later.<\/p>\n
So why does this happen and what can you do about it if you already have type 2 diabetes?<\/p>\n
British scientists published an article in the June 2016 edition of the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health<\/em> that proved that a heart attack is much deadlier in diabetics than in nondiabetics.<\/p>\n They used the UK acute myocardial infarction registry to identify 281,259 patients who had suffered ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), when your coronary artery is completely blocked. And 422,661 who had suffered non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), when your coronary artery is only halfway blocked.<\/p>\n Overall, around 121,000 of the study subjects also had diabetes.<\/p>\n The results?<\/p>\n \u2022\tDiabetics who suffered a heart attack caused by a completely blocked coronary artery had a 56 percent greater chance of death in subsequent years than their non-diabetic peers who suffered a similar attack.<\/p>\n \u2022\tDiabetics who suffered a heart attack caused by a partially blocked coronary artery were 39 percent more likely to die in subsequent years than nondiabetics after the same attack.<\/p>\n This shows just how important it is to tackle type 2 diabetes before it causes irreversible damage.<\/p>\n Here is the exact 3-step strategy that thousands of readers have used to completely cure their type 2 diabetes\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n And for two more causes of heart attack:<\/p>\n