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tudy: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner STEPHANIE NANO,Associated Press NEW YORK — A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests. The large international effort to measure diabetes' toll found the disease also raises the risk of dying prematurely from a host of other ailments, even breast cancer and pneumonia. "It's quite a wide sweep of conditions," said Dr. John Danesh of Cambridge University in Britain, w...