One study warns: If you suffer from sugar, you are more likely to contract this disease.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – According to a recent scientific study by American researchers, the incidence of heart failure was about double that of diabetic patients.

The study, conducted by the University of Glasgow on behalf of the Scottish Diabetes Research Network and published today in the journal Circulation, found that patients with type 1 diabetes were more likely to die of heart failure than those with type 2 diabetes.

More work is needed to see if people with type 1 diabetes will benefit from increased use of drugs to prevent cardiovascular disease, the researchers note.

To confirm the results of the study, the researchers looked at health data over a 10-year period from January 2004 to December 2013, the heart disease rate in hospitals, and any deaths occurring 30 days after its onset. entry into the hospital.

The researchers documented the number of hospital heart failure cases in people aged 30 years and older and found that the hospital failure rate was higher in diabetic patients, regardless of their type, compared to to those who did not have one.

But people with type 1 diabetes, both men and women, were more likely to die within 30 days of illness.

"The rate of heart failure has decreased over time in people with diabetes or not, but it is still twice as high as in diabetics compared to unaffected people," said Dr. David McAllister, lead author of the study.