Award-winning actress Angela Bassett, along with 11 leading patient and professional organizations, is joining For Your SweetHeart: Where diabetes and heart disease meet — a nationwide movement to raise awareness of the critical link between type 2 diabetes and heart disease, the number one killer of people with type 2 diabetes. Bassett, known for her portrayal of legendary singer Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It and role in American Horror Story, is spreading this important message in remembrance of her mom, who had type 2 diabetes and died of heart disease. Along with For Your SweetHeart sponsors Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company, Bassett is urging those with type 2 diabetes to know their risk of heart disease, for the sake of their health and the people they cherish the most.

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