A meta-analysis of papers published on diabetes shows that diabetic women are more susceptible to stroke than diabetic men, possibly because of obesity.
Accept healthy (Mar, 2014) – A review of more than 60 studies has shown that women with Type II diabetes have a 27 percent higher risk of stroke than men with diabetes. The study is the first to reveal that the risk of diabetes-related stroke significantly differs in women and men.
“Research has previously shown that diabetes confers a greater risk of having a heart attack in women than men, and now we have shown that this gender difference also extends to stroke,” said Professor Rachel Huxley from the University of Queensland School of Population Health.
“Our analysis of the data showed, in comparison to men with diabetes, women with the condition had a 27 per cent higher relative risk of stroke even after taking into account other risk factors such as age and blood pressure.”
