Diabetes may raise risk of heart attack death by 50%

                Having diabetes increases the risk of dying from the effects of a heart attack by around 50%, a new study has warned. Researchers from University of Leeds in the UK tracked 700,000 people who had been admitted to hospital with a heart attack between January 2003 and June 2013. Of these, 121,000 had diabetes. After stripping out the effects of age, sex, any other illnesses and differences in the emergency medical treatment received, researchers found stark differences in survival rates. People with diabetes were 56% more likely to have died if that had experienced a ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) heart attack than those without the condition.