The Worsening Landscape of Cardiovascular Disease

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The Worsening Landscape of Cardiovascular Disease
Author: Suzanne Hughes, MSN, RN
Author Disclosure: Johnson & Johnson
Merck advisory board, AstraZeneca speakers' bureau, Guidant Corporation consultant

Author: Alfred A. Bove, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
Author Disclosure: Stock Options, Consulting Fees: Insight Telehealth.
Date: 8/30/2006

While we have witnessed a decline in the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the last 20-30 years, the trends for the future look much less bright. For some years, the increasing incidence of obesity was considered to be a consequence of prosperity, and obesity was even debated as an acceptable lifestyle. However, as the epidemiology of obesity became more apparent and the incidence began to reach astronomic levels, the consequences of obesity with its accompanying metabolic derangements, sometimes in the form of type 2 diabetes, or in the form of the metabolic syndrome, and now being understood as an obesity-induced rise in insulin resistance, have become more apparent./.../
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