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Chapter 14

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Major Risk Factors: Diabetes Mellitus

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The final major modifiable risk for cardiovascular disease is diabetes mellitus, and specifically type II diabetes. And we talked about diabetes in the last section and learned that this group of diseases, marked by high blood glucose levels, puts people at a much higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to people without diabetes.