A new study has revealed that 90 percent of US adults are on the way to heart disease.
According to Healthy Day, a new report has found that nine out of ten Americans are in the early, middle or late stages of cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic (CKM) syndrome that leads to heart disease.
The report also says that almost 10 percent of adults already have heart disease.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston conducted the research under the supervision of Dr Muthiah Vaduganathan.
Vaduganathan said Poor cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health is widespread among the U.S. population.”
For this study, researchers looked at the rates of CKM syndrome and found that many Americans fall into one of the four stages of CKM syndrome.
CMK syndrome has four stages. In the first stage, excessive fat is built up in the body; in the second stage, the person gets metabolic risk diseases like high blood pressure and cholesterol. In the third stage, the person has a high risk of kidney and heart disease, and in the fourth stage, the person is diagnosed with full-blown heart disease.
According to the Boston research, “Almost 90% of US adults met criteria for CKM syndrome (stage 1 or higher) and 15% met criteria for advanced stages, neither of which improved between 2011 and 2020.”
