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Senior Citizen Health & Medicine
Increasing Rate of Diabetes Linked to Increased
Cardiovascular Disease
Call for aggressive efforts to prevent
diabetes, control CVD risks
 March 28, 2007 Another arrow is pointing to
diabetes and obesity as significant causes for the increase in
cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the U.S. The latest study shows that as
rates of diabetes have risen, the proportion of CVD linked to diabetes
has also increased.
These recent findings emphasize the need for
increased efforts to prevent diabetes and to aggressively treat and
control CVD risk factors among those with diabetes, according to the
investigators from the long-standing Framingham Heart Study, a program
of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National
Institutes of Health.
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The researchers compared risk factors for
cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events such as heart attacks
in Framingham study participants from two different time periods.
The first group was examined between 1952 and 1974
and the more recent group was examined between 1975 and 1998. A total of
9,540 individuals age 45 to 64 were evaluated.
The risk attributable to diabetes was 5.2 percent
in the earlier time period, compared to 7.8 percent in the later period.
Most of the increased risk was observed among men.
The scientists also reported that the prevalence of
diabetes among those with CVD almost doubled between the earlier and
later time periods and there was also an increase in the prevalence of
obesity.
Increasing Cardiovascular Burden Due to Diabetes:
the Framingham Heart Study is published in the March 27th issue of
Circulation and is also currently available online (March 12 Rapid
Access issue).
Caroline Fox, M.D., lead author and medical officer
with the Framingham Heart Study of NHLBI, is available to comment on the
studys findings. She can discuss reasons for the increased burden of
cardiovascular disease due to diabetes and the need to aggressively
treat and control cardiovascular disease risk factors in people with
diabetes.
Resources:
● Framingham Heart Study,
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/framingham/index.html
● Your Guide to a Healthy Heart,
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/other/your_guide/healthyheart.htm
Part of the National Institutes of Health, the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans, conducts,
and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep
disorders. The Institute also administers national health education
campaigns on women and heart disease, healthy weight for children, and
other topics.
NHLBI is part of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), the Federal Government's primary agency for biomedical and
behavioral research. NIH is a component of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) The
Nation's Medical Research Agency includes 27 Institutes and Centers
and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic,
clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the
causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For
more information about NIH and its programs, visit
www.nih.gov.
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