The American Heart Association has identified a new medical condition that links heart disease to several other health conditions, including kidney disease, diabetes and obesity—offering new guidance in testing those as young as 30 for the chronic ailments.Those who have a combination of kidney disease, heart disease and any metabolic disorder like diabetes or obesity have CKM syndrome, though having just one puts patients at risk for developing the condition.
Experts coined the term CKM because those disorders put people at risk for cardiovascular and kidney failure: Diabetes causes patients to beThe researchers recommend testing for cardiovascular disease and heart failure be done on people as young as 30 years old and to calculate both 10- and 30-year CVD risk.