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BY AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS

Women with Type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to have  compared to men and may also need more frequent and intense physical activity to lower their risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

A new American Heart Association scientific statement published in the association’s journal Circulation on Monday.

“Cardiovascular disease may be more deadly for women with Type 2 diabetes than it is for men,” said Judith G. Regensteiner, Ph.D, chair of the statement writing group and professor of medicine and director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora.

“While we don’t fully understand how the inherent hormonal differences between men and women affect risk, we do know that some risk factors for heart disease and stroke affect women differently than men and there are disparities in how these risk factors are treated.”

Slightly more than 9 percent of the U.S. population had diabetes in 2012, while the number of people with Type 2 diabetes is increasing at a rapid rate. Type 2 diabetes is associated with the body not producing enough insulin to control . Overall, men and women have similar rates of Type 2 diabetes, which affects about 12.6 million women and 13 million men age 20 and older in the United States.

The statement noted that women with Type 2 diabetes:

• have at earlier ages than men;
• are more likely to die after a first heart attack than men;