Cardiometabolic Disorders News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Changes in HDL level may be linked with SARS-CoV-2 infection risk and subsequent outcomes in COVID-19, a speaker reported.

Researchers have identified lipid cutoffs that may indicate elevated risk for MI and stroke among young adults aged 20 to 39 years without a history of diabetes, according to findings published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Adults with type 2 diabetes had lower fasting glucose and increased time in range with a time-restricted eating window of 10 hours compared with an eating window of 14 hours or longer, according to study data.

People infected with COVID-19 do not have increased long-term risks for developing cardiovascular disease or diabetes, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine.

Obesity is a dysregulation of the energy balance pathways in the human body. People with obesity are defending an abnormal body weight set point, and we can recognize and start to address that with the easiest tool we have, BMI. You just need height and weight, and you can calculate it. However, in certain populations, the standard cutoff values do not accurately correspond to risks. Someone who is Asian and has a BMI of 23 kg/m2 or 24 kg/m2, may have a “normal” BMI, but in reality, patients of Asian descent have a higher risk at a lower BMI. It’s the same thing for African Americans at higher BMI cutoff values.

Obesity prevalence is on the rise across the U.S., but some groups are at a greater risk for the disease than others.

The level of total cholesterol minus HDL and LDL was associated with progression of atherosclerosis, independently of traditional CV risk factors, according to data published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Consumption of one avocado daily was not found to reduce visceral adiposity and only had a slight effect on cardiometabolic disorder risk factors, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Among adults with type 2 diabetes, white men and white women and those seeing an endocrinologist receive more prescriptions for SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists than Black adults and those seen only in primary care, data show.

Adults with a higher visceral adiposity index score have an increased risk for all-cause mortality as well as some cause-specific mortalities, according to data from the UK Biobank.