People with diabetes are at a greater risk for cardiovascular disease than other people. But you can avoid it by reducing the number of risk factors that you have for it. These include:

• dyslipidemia (unhealthy blood cholesterol levels)
• hypertension (high blood pressure)
• smoking
• a family history of premature heart disease
• albuminuria (the presence of the protein albumin in the urine, a sign of kidney damage)

Many of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease are preventable. Click on a topic to learn more about it and how to prevent it.

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