Diabetes Type 2 Complications
Obesity and metabolic syndrome powerful predictors of diabetes type 2
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 30th, 2005
According to researchers in the United States, "Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of death in diabetic patients. The clustering of atherogenic risk factors in diabetic and prediabetic persons is an important contributor to this increased risk.
"In addition, overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome, which are powerful predictors of incident type 2 diabetes also predispose to coronary heart disease."
"The continuing epidemic of these conditions has tremendous implications for CVD. Aggressive efforts in population-based primary...
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