Individuals with diabetes are highly succeptible to cardiovascular disease<span>, making it the greatest threat to their health. The reason that cardiovascular diseases becomes such a huge risk is because people with diabetes also tend to have hypertension, abnormal levels of cholesterol and are likely to be obese due to lack of physical activity.</span>
<span>In this item, we are given that a person was diagnosed with diabetes and asked to determine what single greatest health threat is he prone to. Diabetes may increase the risk of other diseases. The greatest threat of which is the cardiovascular disease. </span>
Her coworker should not be making discriminatory statements about patients and if speaking about a patient to other coworkers he could violate HIPAA. Mary should report this behavior to her supervisor for those reasons.