Medical Xpress November 11, 2024
People with both type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease face a heart health double-whammy, a new study says.
Men with both diabetes and kidney disease will develop heart health problems 28 years earlier than those without either condition, researchers reported at the American Heart Association meeting in Chicago.
Women with diabetes and kidney disease will develop heart problems 26 years earlier, results show.
“Our findings help to interpret the combination of risk factors that will lead to a high predicted cardiovascular disease risk and at what age they have an impact on risk,” lead study author Vaishnavi Krishnan, a researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago and a medical student at Boston University School of Medicine, said in a news...
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