Treating CKD to Minimize Cardiovascular Events
Prof. Rungroj Krittayaphong, President of Heart Failure Society of Thailand, said that the risk of heart and cardiovascular disease among patients with T2D is 2 – 4 times higher than people without diabetes. Patients with T2D also have risk of developing a myocardial infarction as patients with previous myocardial infarction without diabetes. People living with T2D are two times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease compared to non-diabetics. T2D and CKD are related and result to undesirable outcomes. The 10-year accumulated incidence of heart and cardiovascular disease shows that the mortality is 6 times higher than people without T2D or people without CKD. Moreover, the risk of people with both T2D and CKD is 2-3 times higher than people with either T2D or CKD.
CKD and heart failure are…
