1.   And diabetic women have more than three times the risk of heart disease than women without diabetes, according to Howard.

2.   In Kansas, a diabetic woman talks to a nurse via her living room television about her recommended dose of medicine for the day.

3.   The higher incidence of depression among diabetic women mirrors the pattern for the population as whole, the researchers said.

4.   Though she is ostensibly healthy, blindness, heart disease and life-threatening infection are among the potential complications she faces as a diabetic woman.

5.   Upstairs, in a starkly furnished office, Dr. Muhammad Ali examined a handful of the patients who remained, including a diabetic woman recovering from an appendectomy.

6.   A diabetic woman trapped in her snow-covered jeep for four days dutifully recorded her insulin shots and wrote out a will before dying.

7.   However, diabetic women on the drug are told to stop taking it when they get pregnant for fear it may cause fetal death or defects.