Important news for Kimkins members who are prediabetic:
Three separate studies that examined healthy patients found many patients are still at risk of cardiovascular events, despite appearing healthy. These studies were announced at the American Society of Hypertension’s 25th Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition.
Patients in these studies didn’t have diabetes or hypertension but met criteria for prediabetes and/or prehypertension. One in three healthy adults had prehypertension, one in four had prediabetes, and one in 10 had both.
Many study subjects who had both conditions were also overweight, had larger waist circumference, and higher “whole body” inflammation and insulin. Subjects tended to have higher pulse pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and “bad cholesterol” and lower “good cholesterol” levels.
All of these measures, both individually and collectively, indicate an early high risk for cardiovascular events such as heart attack or stroke.
In one study, researchers compared 369 asymptomatic subjects with prediabetes to 1,277 asymptomatic subjects with normal blood glucose. The results demonstrated subjects with prediabetes showed early manifestations of cardiovascular disease, even though they were asymptomatic.
Another study examined prehypertensive patients for increased markers of inflammation and glucose metabolism, finding that these patients, who were otherwise healthy, showed altered metabolic and inflammatory functions.
