Heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease are among the most common chronic illnesses in the United States — and they’re all closely connected.
Adults with diabetes are twice as likely to have heart disease or a stroke compared with those who don’t have diabetes.
People with diabetes — Type 1 and Type 2 — are also at risk of developing kidney disease.
And when the kidneys don’t work well, a person’s heart has to work even harder to pump blood to them, which can then lead to heart disease.
syndrome, meaning they have been diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease or kidney disease or are at high risk of developing them, the numbers are still “astronomically higher than expected” said Dr. Rahul Aggarwal, a cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and co-author of the study.
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”, Rahul Aggarwal
Organizations:
American Heart Association, Brigham, Women’s Hospital
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United States, Boston