Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 53191

Diabetes: Health Services

Tabled: 19 May 2025
Answered: 28 May 2025

Question

Navendu Mishra

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of improving diabetes care on reducing deaths from cardiovascular disease.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The relationship between diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is well known, as adults with diabetes are two to three times more likely to develop CVD and are nearly twice as likely to die from heart disease and stroke compared to those without.We kn...

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