Diabetes: Health Services
Commons · Question 53191 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 28 May 2025
Question
Asked by Navendu Mishra
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
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 28 May 2025
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...