- American Heart Association officials say kidney disease is part of a constellation of chronic health conditions that include cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
- They have presented a newly defined cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome that adds kidney disease to the connection.
- Experts say the CKM definition can improve prevention, intervention, and treatment through more integrated care.
Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity have long been linked through research and in disease prevention and treatment protocols.
The American Heart Association says that another chronic health problem, kidney disease, should also be included.
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“The advisory addresses the connections among these conditions with a particular focus on identifying people at early stages of CKM syndrome,” said Dr. Chiadi Ndumele, the writing committee chair and an associate professor of medicine and director of obesity and cardiometabolic research in the division of cardiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in a
“Cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and kidney disease have shared risk factors and can each contribute to the development and progression of each other,” Dr. Dmitry Abramov, a cardiologist at Loma Linda University International Heart Institute in California, told Medical News Today. “Targeting kidney disease adds an extra pathway to reduce not only the progression of kidney disease itself, often saving patients from the difficulties of dialysis, but also to reduce progression of cardiovascular disease and other associated conditions.”
According to the American Heart…
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