Effect Of Diabetes On Heart May Differ By Ethnicity, Study Finds

... Diabetes strongly increases the risk of heart failure in all ethnic groups, but early effects of diabetes on the heart may differ depending on whether the subjects are white, African-American, Hispanic or Chinese. These results emerged from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) when the investigators focused on heart mass - the weight of the heart muscle as measured by MRI, according to Alain Bertoni, M... click link for more info. ...