Battling Heart and Stroke

By Rita Tate

Did you know that if you have diabetes you have a greater chance of dying from heart disease or stroke and it doesn’t make any difference if you are a woman or a man? One reason is high blood levels of sugar make the walls of your blood vessels thicker and cause them to lose their elasticity, which in turn makes it harder for blood to pass through.

Type 1 diabetes is know as juvenile-onset diabetes and usually affects children and young adults and is genetically-linked. The following are some conditions that are typically found in people with type 2 diabetes, which is know as adult-onset diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

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The percentage of U.S. adults age 20 and older with diabetes rose from 5.1 to 6.5 percent between two time periods studied by federal health officials: 1988-1994 and 1999-2002, according to recent research from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

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WHEN: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Agenda:
11:15 a.m. - Media Registration
11:30 a.m. - Event and photo opportunity with Darryl Sittler
and the Heart and Stroke Foundation
- Cheque presentation to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation by Bayer HealthCare

WHERE: TD Centre Courtyard
66 Wellington Street West
Toronto, ON

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The Heart and Stroke Foundation is out with a report that forecasts an alarming increase in obesity in Canada,especially among children.

It says more can be done to tackle this problem, including a series of tax measures. They would include taxing unhealthy foods, while dropping taxes on healthy items as well as on sports and exercise equipment.

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