A new study finds that people with both type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease are more likely to face heart health problems at an earlier age. According to researchers, men with both conditions will develop heart health problems 28 years earlier than men without either condition. The study’s findings were presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting in Chicago and have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

On the other hand, study results show that women with diabetes and kidney disease will develop cardiovascular problems 26 years earlier.

“Our findings help explain the combination of risk factors that would lead to higher predicted heart disease,” 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 release. ” They have an impact on risk and at what age.

“For example, if someone has borderline-elevated levels of blood pressure, glucose and/or impaired kidney function, but they do not yet have high blood pressure or diabetes or chronic kidney disease, their risk may not be recognized. Is.”

For the study, researchers used federal health survey data from 2011 to 2020 to create cardiovascular risk profiles for people with type 2 diabetes, kidney disease or both.

Kidney disease and type 2 diabetes are two of the four components of the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM), which the Heart Association defines as an overall health risk that results from the interaction. heart diseaseKidney problems, diabetes and obesity.

Study results show that adults with chronic kidney disease have a higher risk of heart disease eight years earlier than those with healthy kidneys. Similarly, it is higher in people with type 2 diabetes. risk of heart disease About a decade sooner than people without diabetes.

Researchers also found that when combined, the two conditions appear to work together to increase heart health risks even more. In adults, both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease lead to higher heart risk starting at age 42 for women and age 35 for men, according to a US News report. This is 26 and 28 years earlier than people without both health problems, respectively.

However, the researchers cautioned that their findings are based on a simulated population. “This is an early step in the process of understanding how the risk model works,” Dr. Saadia Khan, professor of cardiovascular epidemiology and associate professor of cardiology, medical social sciences and preventive medicine at Northwestern School of Medicine, said in a news release. “

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