You haven't heard of CKM syndrome -- but you likely have it

You haven't heard of CKM syndrome -- but you likely have it

CKM syndrome affects 90 percent of Americans

90% of U.S. adults have this syndrome — but most have never heard of it

CKM syndrome is not one disease but rather “a broad disorder that recognizes the overlap between cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic conditions such as diabetes and obesity.”

90 percent of U.S. adults have the CKM syndrome — but most have never heard of it

Susan Gilchrist, a preventive cardiologist and epidemiologist sees patients all the time at the University of North Carolina Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome Clinic who don’t know what CKM is and are not sure why they’re in her clinic. It’s not surprising – CKM syndrome was only recently coined, in 2023, by the American Heart Association (AHA). And roughly 9 in 10 U.S. adults – about the same number of people estimated to have it –…