Diabetes among women under 55 may up heart disease risk.

ISLAMABAD -- Women, who are under 55, with Type-2 diabetes are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease, a new study suggests.

The study indicates that women, who are less than 55 years and Type-2 diabetes, had a tenfold greater risk of having coronary heart disease over the next two decades, with lipoprotein insulin resistance (LPIR) proving to be a strong, predictive biomarker as well.

'We're going to see, unfortunately, younger and younger people having heart attacks,' said co-author Samia Mora, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in the US.'When a younger individual has a cardiovascular event, it will affect their quality of life going forward, their productivity, and their contribution to society,' Mora added.

For the study, published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, the researchers analysed more than 50 risk factors in 28,024 women who participated in the decade long study, Medical Daily reported.

The team analyzed approximately 50 biomarkers associated with cardiovascular health.Commonly used metrics like low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (or 'bad' cholesterol) and hemoglobin A1C...