A new study found that people with both type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease tend to face heart health issues earlier. According to researchers, men with both conditions will develop heart health problems 28 years earlier than those without either condition. The findings of the study were presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting in Chicago and are yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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

Vaishnavi Krishnan, a researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago and a medical student at Boston University School of Medicine and lead study author in a news release said, “Our findings help to interpret the combination of risk factors that will lead to a high predicted cardiovascular disease risk and at what age they have an impact on risk.

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

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

Kidney disease and type 2 diabetes are two of the four components of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM) which the heart association defines as the overall health risk that arises from the interplay of heart disease, kidney problems, diabetes and obesity.

The results of the study reveal that adults with chronic kidney disease develop a higher risk of heart disease eight years earlier than those with healthy kidneys. Likewise, people with type 2 diabetes have higher heart disease risk about a decade sooner than those without diabetes.

The researchers also found that when they are combined, the two conditions appear to work together to drive heart health risk even higher. According to a report in U.S. News, adults both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease have a higher heart risk starting at age 42 for women and 35 for men. That’s 26 and 28 years earlier, respectively, compared to people without the two health problems.

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

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