Women and Heart Disease The Role of Diabetes and Hyperglycemia Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD; Elsa-Grace V. Giardina, MD; Anselm K. Gitt, MD; Uwe Gudat, MD; Helmut O. Steinberg, MD; Diethelm Tschoepe, MD Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:934-942.
Close to one million adolescents in the U.S.—or four percent—are affected by a cluster of cardiac risk factors known as metabolic syndrome that is proven to lead to the early onset of diabetes or heart disease, according to a study published in the Au