A person who has suffered a heart attack is more prone to another one in the future. However if you are a diabetic without a prior history of heart attack then the risk of developing a heart attack is equal to the risk faced by a non-diabetic who has previously suffered a heart attack. In other words a diabetic carries a high risk of heart attack. Not just this coronary artery disease (CAD) in pre-menopausal women as compared to men of the same age is quite uncommon. However in the presence of diabetes the risk of CAD in women is