Diabetes and Heart Disease: How to Keep Your Heart Healthy? Heart disease and diabetes often go hand in hand. People with diabetes are twice as likely to develop heart disease or suffer a stroke compared to those without diabetes. The longer you live with high blood sugar levels, the more damage it causes to your blood vessels, increasing heart-related risks. Poor lifestyle habits—l... https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/diabetes-and-heart-disease-how-to-keep-your-heart-healthy/2922